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Subject: Re: a question for you Vincent

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 13:37:35 06/30/03

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On June 30, 2003 at 14:42:36, Mr j smith wrote:

>On June 30, 2003 at 14:06:43, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On June 30, 2003 at 12:14:35, Sean Mintz wrote:
>>
>>>I originally used the Tyan Tiger MP. It doesnt have video, networking, sound, or
>>>anything like that which is what I wanted. It was a fast board, completely
>>>stable, and I used it for almost 2 years. It got destroyed during an electrical
>>>storm, though. I replaced it with a Tyan Tiger MPX which was a later revision
>>
>>electrical storm?
>>
>>What do you mean?
>>
>>I have 150000 volts above my head. If that ain't generating a big enough EMF,
>>then the only thing that i can imagine at the moment generating a bigger EMF
>>field is a H-bomb in the atmosphere.
>>
>>Of course you need 3 wires to the machine. 2 power wires and 1 earth, otherwise
>>nowadays todays computers destroy themselves ;)
>>
>>>that also included networking capabilities. Better performance, still completely
>>>stable, but also can be overclocked. I have my dual 1.2 ghz athlon mp's (the
>>>originals) at 9x150 (1350 mhz).
>>>
>>>These boards have been great to me and if they sound like what you're looking
>>>for then I would definately suggest them.
>>
>>i personally find all the dual K7 motherboards suck ass. Most boards the com
>>ports do not work. good example is the Tyan stuff. only bios 2.07 the both com
>>ports worked. the newer ones it doesn't.
>>
>>for an auto232 player pretty critical.
>>
>>currently i have a MPX2 motherboard. it is the best board i had so far, but keep
>>in mind that this board is discontinued.
>>
>>dual opteron is what rocks now.
>
>
>Do you know how far the dual opteron motherboards can be overclocked?  By that I
>mean the FSB.
>
>Thanks in advanced.

You can idea of what might be possible from here:

http://www.amdzone.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1301

Beware, I'm not recommending this.



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