Civileme recommends this board, but it has no ide sockets
and only 5 PCI. I goatta have at least one ide. Let's
try again, wouldja? Thanx, all.
At 17:13 07/22/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, you wrote:
>> I am thinking about buying an Athlon motherboard.
>> I would welcome comments (good and bad) about the
>> ones out there. I would probably run 800MHz. I
>> would like to have at least one ide socket for my
>> sound card. Please advise if you have good/bad to
>> say about any particular boards.
>>
>>
>
>I have never been as impressed by any other Motherboard as I am by the AZ11
>from FIC. I would not hesitate to recommend it in the basis of my experience
>for either socket A chip, the Duron 600, 650 or 700, or any speed of the
Athlon
>Thunderbird. My little DUron 600 with its clock forced to 600 instead of
>freewheeling will outbenchmark a Xeon IIIB 700. The Athlon T-Bird series at
>800 and 850 rival the P-III coppermine at 1GHz, and the 900 outperforms it.
>
>Performance considerations aside, I am running cool when the board works its
>way up to the optimum, which for my setup turned out to be about 672 or 112%
>rated speed. I have PC133 SDRAM on board and somehow this little board
manages
>TWO fetches per cycle so its FSB really runs at twice the memory bus
speed. I
>would love to know more about that, and I am fairly certain it really does so
>else I could not beat this Xeon on some throughput tasks, because it is
clocked
>higher and is nearly equal in pure processor performance with the edge to the
>Xeon, but the Duron is surrounded with better support and runs at 37C pretty
>constantly
>
>And I bought FIC because it was the only Socket A board available to me.
Now I
>am wondering if I will buy any other Socket A brand. I thought FIC was a
>"slightly above average on SUper-7" with poor to fair performance in the BX
>Chipsets, but this one showed me how wrong conclusions about "brand"
>technologies can be. FIC outdid themselves and everyone else with this AZ11
>Board.
>
>
>Civileme
>
