The best SS7 in you experience you can suggest to buy?

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Alex
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The best SS7 in you experience you can suggest to buy?

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hi everybody!
I already own a K6-2+ 550 2.0V CORE 3.3V I/O and 2 ASUS P5A-B (with no audio). It works fine with XP and voodoo 3 3000.. :)

Bytheway i'm looking for :
:twisted: - a motherboard (k6plus support) with 133 FSB,
:twisted: - a multiplier to set the core to 2.0 (on ASUS P5A-B the lower setting is 2.2),
:twisted: - 2MB Cache onboard,
:twisted: - audio onboard supported by MS-DOS for retrogaming.

Does it it? :?:

In your experience does it exist a motherboard with these specs?

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What is the best board is a matter of debate. The only thing I would say is your ASUS boards are as good as most and better than a lot. They also will go down to 2.0v.

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Post by Alex »

:shock: :shock:
i could'nt find that setting on my paper manual..
what is that DWB program in the screenshot?

What about tha ASUS P5A? I can obtain one for free..
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DWB Program ?? wha dat ? As for the P5A it is pretty much the same as the P5A-B except it is an ATX board, and as such I think it has more PCI slots.
Superpuppy 3
K6-3+ 450 ACZ (6x100)
DFI K6BV3+/66 Rev B2 (2 Meg) w/ 2x28mm Chipset Fans
2x256 Meg PC 133 Hynix SDRAM
1x 20G Maxtor (7200)
2x 80G Maxtor (7200) Ducted w/ 2x486 Fans Mount
52/24/52/16 LG CDR/RW/DVD
8/4/3/12/24/16/32 LG Super Multi
ATI 9000 aiw Radeon AGP
SB Audigy 1 MP3 Sound
CMD 649 IDE Controller
NEC USB 2 Card
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There are a few good boards worth considering each with their advantages and disadvantages.

I have tried many SS7 boards and have finally stuck with three set ups utilising the most common of the SS7 chipsets.

For the ALI ALADDIN V chipset I have an ASUS P5A v1.04 with a K6-III+/450 @ 600 (100fsb)

I have managed up to 112fsb using this board but 133 is no go as it does not have a 4x divider for the pci slots. Also the board does not support ATA66 but it does have hardware monitoring. Onboard cache is 512kb. supports cpu voltage from 2.0v-3.2v

For the VIA MVP3 chipset I have an EPOX MVP3G2 board with a K6-III+/450 @ 600 (100fsb)

Again I have managed up to 112fsb with this board with L3 onboard 1Mb cache enabled. Does not have a 4x divider for the pci slots. This board also has ATA66 support and hardware monitoring. The G5 variety of this board has 2Mb of onboard cache. Will support cpu voltages fro 1.3v-3.2v

For the SIS530 chipset I have the Gigabyte GA5-SMM board with a K6-III+/500 @ 600 (133fsb). Onboard cache is 512kb.

This chipset has a 4x divider and you can achieve 133fsb. The disadvantages are that there is no AGP slot so you need to find a decent PCI slot video card to go with this set up. I have recently got hold of a Radeon 9250pci card. The memory performance of this chipset is not great, but at 133fsb manages to pull up towards the MVP3 and ALI chipsets. This board does not monitor cpu temps but does give cpu voltages. Will support cpu voltages from 1.3v-3.2v

All of these boards are ATX. Jim can give you best advise for AT set ups.

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Post by DonPedro »

stedman,

you forgot to mention that the sis530-boards also feature ATA66 support. (like ga5-smm, asus p5s-series)

also according to the manual for the asus p5s-vm and p5-99 there are also some board-versions with onboard-sound (sb16-compatible).
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You are right Peter. Also the GA5-SMM has onboard sound. All of the boards take up to 3x256Mb SDRAM memory.

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The best SS7 in you experience you can suggest to buy?

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I have good experience with two Epox MVP3-G2 boards(rev 1.4 - or is it 1.04 :oops: ). I found them to be quite stable, and they have a bit better ATA66 performance than an ALADDIN V board I compared them to.(Acorp 5ALI61)
I would advise you to skip onboard audio(SB 16 or SB Pro compatibility at best and usually poor quality), and find an AWE 64 Gold card. It has good audio quality, has AWE 32/64 compatibility 8) (many retro games that support AWE cards use more audio channels and more complex midi music when set to AWE then on other setting), and as far as I know the ISA bus doesn't get oveclocked when raising the FSB.
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