On Tue, 2 May 2000, Oliver G wrote:
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> That BITES man. Specially for a company such as Nvidia which provides
> superior hardware. Why didn't they have it available as open source?
> Those skunks. Anyway, I just snapped up a nice DDR Geforce card and I
> can't wait to test this puppy out. I am soooo out of the loop
> now....don't know what to get by way of MB's. I have always been a
> loyal Abit/Asus MB person and Anand and company seem to be going with
> GigaX, Tyan, etc now. Any thoughts on this matter? TIA.
I'm using an MSI 6163v3. Pretty nice. The only thing the BE6-II has over
it is finer-grained overclocking. But the 6163v3 has 6 PCI slots and 4
DIMMs. Pretty stable.
The reason I abhor Tomato (not necessarily the i810 chipset) is because my
first P-II main board was a Tomato. I never got over the AGPGART problems
on that board, necessitating Windoze reinstalls every 2-3 months.
Also, Tomato makes a Super7 main board that really sucks. It has
"automatic voltage detection." Try to put a Cyrix MII-400 in it (a friend
did). The MII-400 is a 2.5V chip, but the Tomato "detects" it as a 2.8V
chip (and you can't override, no BIOS settings and no jumpers).
What do you think happens when you put a 2.5V CPU at 2.8V and this is a
known runs-very-hot CPU? a fire extinguisher would be handy.. that's why
I'd avoid Tomato if I were you.. a good brand like Abit, IWill, or MSI (I
dont count ASUS because they are not overclock friendly) will secure your
peace of mind.
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