From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 8 00:21:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA12144 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 00:21:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from inet.chipweb.ml.org (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA12139 for ; Sat, 8 Aug 1998 00:21:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Message-Id: <199808080721.AAA12139@hub.freebsd.org> Received: (qmail 18831 invoked from network); 8 Aug 1998 07:20:17 -0000 Received: from speedy.chipweb.ml.org (172.16.1.1) by inet.chipweb.ml.org with SMTP; 8 Aug 1998 07:20:17 -0000 X-Sender: ludwigp2@mail-r X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 00:07:43 -0700 To: Greg Lehey , "W. Maynard" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: Recommendations for an AMD k6 motherboard In-Reply-To: <19980808144237.A14475@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 02:42 PM 8/8/98 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> Any recommendations for a motherboard? Note that am I interested in >> overclocking the k6. Also, any other comments regarding this >> configuration are welcome. > >That's pretty close to my configuration. I have 160 MB memory, >multiple disks, a Millenium I, the same SCSI host adaptor, an old >CD-ROM changer and multiple tapes, but the heart is in the right >place. > >I'm using a RISE Mustang R581A, which has a (currently unused) AGP >port. I bought it in Singapore, mainly because it was the only thing >that supported more than 64 MB cached memory. It uses the SIS >5591/5595 chip set, which doesn't get the highest marks, but so far >I've been pretty happy with it. > >Greg I've found ASUS boards to be reliable. But for overclocking, there's a new board I saw but haven't had a chance to try out yet: the FIC VA-503+ (www.fic.com.tw), which can have a bus clock of 124MHz (!) and a multiplier of 5.5 (5.5*124=682MHz!). And the board can come with 1MB of cache. It uses a VIA chipset, takes DIMMs or SIMMs and has an AGP slot. Another board which has been popular for K6-2s and I've actually seen in use is the MS 5169 (www.msi.com.tw), which uses an ALI chipset. It goes up to 100MHz bus with a 5.5 multiplier. It takes DIMMs, up to 512K cache, and has an AGP slot. --Ludwig Pummer ludwigp@bigfoot.com ludwigp@chipweb.ml.org ICQ UIN: 692441 http://chipweb.home.ml.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message