- Got a 750Mhz Slot A Thunderbird a while back.
- Using it with an Asus K7M motherboard.
- Did a strip-tease of the CPU, and found out that the 750 was actually a 900 core T-Bird.
- This pleased me.
- So far, that’s it.
- You think BIOS updates don’t matter much?
- This processor is supposed to do about a 70 in CPUMark.
- Do you know what it does using BIOS version 1007?
- 11.9.
- That’s a big difference.
- People who think that all they need is a 200Mhz processor should try this sometime.
- Very unpleasant thoughts go through your mind when you watch it in inaction walking through benchmarks.
- Even worse thoughts go through the head of the person for whom you’re designing a new system seeing this.
- Better get BIOS version 1009 right away.
- Have UDMA66 or better drives? I do.
- Even after the BIOS updates, the benchmark numbers weren’t too good.
- Ran Winbench, and the scores weren’t too good for an IBM 75GXP.
- Leaving DMA unenabled in Win98 wasn’t too bright.
- Turning it on was even dumber.
- The K7M doesn’t like DMA.
- It’s nothing personal; plenty of others are having that problem, too.
- Didn’t see any answers, though.
- Do you have one? Could you please tell me?
- Actually, I do have one: Forget the regular IDE controller and use a PCI controller/RAID card.
- I’m not the only one coming up with that answer, so are most of the mobo manufacturers.
- Noticed some of these new Via mobos are getting a little pricey?
- Noticed a lot of them have alternate controllers/RAID built in?
- You think they’re doing that for their health?
- Unless I find more things the K7M doesn’t like, we’ll have a full review in a couple days.
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