ms-6530 "pentium 4" with ISA slot
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:12 pm
MS-6530 i845 motherboard (oem). 2xSDRAM, AGP, 3xPCI, 1xISA
There's not a lot around documenting this board, so i might post here. This
board is a zippy i845 brookdale motherboard with a single ISA slot. Handy
for all sorts of legacy hardware! I bought this old dust covered board of ebay
for a buck + postage for a friend who tests old stallion technology.
I booted it up with an old knoppix to test the ISA slot with a sound card,
and everything seems good :>
Does anyone know if this chipset will run reliably at 133MHz ? The boards
top overclock is 133, and PC133 is fairly common. The other consideration
now is the CPU.
I have a 4x100FSB celeron 1700 which runs fine. I also tried a 4x200FSB P4
2.8GHz. The CPU ran ok, at 1400MHz (14x100Mhz), and it'd probably run at
a half decent 14x133MHz = 1966 (i think!) if i'm confident enough to
overclock the chipset.
But , the issue here is , running memtest on the P4@1400 gives VERY slow
L1 and L2 access speeds ; only 10% faster than the SDRAM access times.
(500-1000MB/s). Memtest with the 1700 Celeron reports normal L1/L2
speeds > 10,000 MB/s. So i guess the 800FSB P4 is fairly useless in this
board.
There's not a lot around documenting this board, so i might post here. This
board is a zippy i845 brookdale motherboard with a single ISA slot. Handy
for all sorts of legacy hardware! I bought this old dust covered board of ebay
for a buck + postage for a friend who tests old stallion technology.
I booted it up with an old knoppix to test the ISA slot with a sound card,
and everything seems good :>
Does anyone know if this chipset will run reliably at 133MHz ? The boards
top overclock is 133, and PC133 is fairly common. The other consideration
now is the CPU.
I have a 4x100FSB celeron 1700 which runs fine. I also tried a 4x200FSB P4
2.8GHz. The CPU ran ok, at 1400MHz (14x100Mhz), and it'd probably run at
a half decent 14x133MHz = 1966 (i think!) if i'm confident enough to
overclock the chipset.
But , the issue here is , running memtest on the P4@1400 gives VERY slow
L1 and L2 access speeds ; only 10% faster than the SDRAM access times.
(500-1000MB/s). Memtest with the 1700 Celeron reports normal L1/L2
speeds > 10,000 MB/s. So i guess the 800FSB P4 is fairly useless in this
board.