Author: Albert Silver
Date: 07:24:20 03/22/00
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On March 22, 2000 at 07:41:02, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>On March 22, 2000 at 05:58:11, Francis Monkman wrote:
>
>>On March 21, 2000 at 21:27:23, chris sergel wrote:
>>
>>>Thank you both for your comments.
>>>I'm going to try this new "athlon" chip.
>>>I appreciate your time.
>>>Sincerely,
>>
>>I second the reservation about high-end graphics card(s). I got a Matrox G400
>>for my Athlon 700, without realizing that the Athlon/Matrox combo is reputed to
>>be problematical, and have found it somewhat unstable. Apart from that, great.
>>
>>Francis Monkman
>
>I wasn't aware that Matroxes (Matroxi?) are unstable.
>
>I know for a fact that some AMD chipsets will not run AGP 4x correctly and must
>default to AGP 2x. This is often the case with boxed motherboards. OEMs
>(Gateway, Compaq, etc.) tend to get "good" chipsets which will run AGP 4x
>correctly.
>
>This issue has been discussed at Tom's Hardware. Tom is not extremely happy with
>AMD because they evidently tried to cover up this issue for some time.
>
>I'm not sure it's that big a deal, because in real life, the difference between
>2x and 4x is only significant on synthetic benchmarks.
>
>Video cards seem somewhat problematic with non-Intel chipsets. I had a K6-2 a
>while ago, and a P5A motherboard which is supposed to be the best money can buy.
>It was totally unstable when I tried to use my TNT2 with it. Initially there
>were timing problems, which were solved with a BIOS update. After that, I still
>could not use it because of a totally bizarre problem that I am at a complete
>loss to explain. But this is the main reason why I bought my current (somewhat
>inferior) LX mobo.
>
>-Tom
I think the problem may be with the ASUS. I currently have a FIC 2013 with my
K6-2/350 and a Diamond Monster Fusion which I have been using without a hitch,
yet when I bought an identical setup for my sister with the exception of the
motherboard which was a P5A, the strangest things began to happen. As soon as I
exchanged it for another FIC, the problems disappeared.
Albert Silver
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