First post, by BitWrangler
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Heya Vogons,
So it frequently comes to my mind in other motherboard threads, that 430TX boards, even with SDRAM only, seem not as reliably able to use 83Mhz speeds as 430VX and 430HX boards. In fact they seem more on a par with the older FX for this.
I don't know if it's because I've had some particularly lose-y silicon lottery tickets in my 430TX boards or whether it is a general thing.
So the one I had most experience with was the Octeck Rhino 20+ ATX board, and despite using 100Mhz capable K6-2 class, and PC100 rated RAM, I was never able to get 83Mhz stable on low multipliers, and run say 5x83, so I ran at 6x75. This was with a V3 PCI mostly, and a TGUI 9680 confirmed to run at 83/41.5 PCI on another board.
Some suggest that it's typically the DMA33 IDE controller that messes things up. There could be something in this, as I think it's used on Slot 1 440LX boards also, which seem hit or miss doing 83 as well, although in my samples, it's more 50/50 whereas the TX is more zero for three.
What do you think folks, is this effect real, or have I been super unlucky with my TX boards?
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