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| Author | Topic: Do you have an Athlon? |
| Akma Follower of Athlon |
 posted September 08, 1999 15:51  
Anybody here having an Athlon with a working motherboard? If so, which board? IP: Logged |
| Akma Follower of Athlon |
posted September 09, 1999 18:01
Big silence? That means all the hope is not lost for me? 
OK, maybe I should refrase the question. Anybody knowing anybody with a working Athlon configuration? IP: Logged |
| Adrian Priest of Athlon |
posted September 09, 1999 19:51
I know of one ... in my local PC world. I think it'd be cheaper to buy the whole shop though ... IP: Logged |
| Armin High Priest of Athlon |
posted September 09, 1999 23:07
Fester 3B and Athlon 600 - but it's an AMD review machine so that won't be much help. IP: Logged |
| Pieter Follower of Athlon |
posted September 10, 1999 12:09
i might have one in a week orso, i just need a small pricedrop before i really want to take the plunge :-). ------------------ Pieter :*) IP: Logged |
| Postmand_Per Follower of Athlon |
posted September 10, 1999 03:09
I talked with a guy the other day who had an Athlon 600 OC'ed to 750. He likes that machine! ------------------ IP: Logged |
| Akma Follower of Athlon |
posted September 10, 1999 16:29
It seems the second question really hit the spot... So this all means the beast has not made it to the masses yet? It will be interesting to see whether there are reliable mobo choices available soon with all the woes they are having. If anyone of you guys get a retail Athlon/mobo combo, please post your personal thoughts about how it's working here. Thanks. IP: Logged |
| Fox Mulder Follower of Athlon |
posted September 11, 1999 13:29
I'll have one in three weeks, whoohoo! Damn it! Damn Celeron worshipper status IP: Logged |
| Akma Follower of Athlon |
posted September 11, 1999 18:32
Fox, you have to make sure you make 7 more posts before you get the thing.  IP: Logged |
| Pieter Follower of Athlon |
posted September 12, 1999 12:54
Fox is very active on the .net counterpart. ------------------ Pieter :*) IP: Logged |
| Fox Mulder Follower of Athlon |
posted September 12, 1999 11:08
Hehe, okay I guess this is N°4... IP: Logged |
| Pieter Follower of Athlon |
posted September 13, 1999 20:27
say what Fox ? IP: Logged |
| PsyKo Follower of Athlon |
posted September 15, 1999 03:57
Oct. 1st is when I order my Athlon/mobo! any suggestions on which motherboard to go with? hell, any ideas what mobos will be available on oct 1st? IP: Logged |
| Aslak Heggland Follower of Athlon |
posted September 15, 1999 12:13
I went to a local shop here in Norway, and I actually spotted a MSI SlotA Motherboard for $160! Aparently they`ve had them for some time. I also saw that they had some Athlons, but I didn`t se what speeds. IP: Logged |
| Pieter Follower of Athlon |
posted September 17, 1999 13:21
Im getting the Fic Slot A mainboard, why i dont know they had it in a bundle, decent price. I mean there isnt much to chose from, so anything goes. ------------------ Pieter :*) IP: Logged |
| Rev Celeron Worshipper |
posted September 17, 1999 19:14
Yes, I have a working Athlon 600 working in conjunction with an FIC SD11 MB. PC133 memory is hitched... IBM 34gxp 27.2 gig HDD. Only problem I've found is that the ACPI power monitoring is faulty or something, cause the suspend to harddisk function crashes the computer when activated. The "standby" mode works, except that I can't get it so turn back on Other than that, the product(s) are great!! IP: Logged |
| Akma Follower of Athlon |
posted September 17, 1999 21:21
Thanks for the info Rev. At last some first hand info.
Hmm, it sounds like a good idea to wait a little before getting a FIC then... Not that I'd be getting one, maybe next year or whenever the prices go below the 'pain threshold' as Armin put it. Meanwhile I can dream about having one... IP: Logged |
| Pieter Follower of Athlon |
posted September 18, 1999 11:42
weird stuff someone said that FIC SD11 only functions with 300W powersupply's ------------------ Pieter :*) IP: Logged |
| Burmese Follower of Athlon |
posted September 25, 1999 18:47
I got an Athlon 550 & BCM motherboard last weekend at a local shop (www.stspc.com). The combo only cost $549. $25 more for a Coolermaster fan/heatsink. Works just fine except that it didn't like the 128Mb DRAMs that had been working fine in several SS7 mobos. ------------------ IP: Logged |
| Burmese Follower of Athlon |
posted September 25, 1999 18:52
Config note: Don't try installing WinAnything with all the PCI cards in. best to install with just the video card and then add cards one at a time after all the core drivers are in place. Reboot and reenable the ACPI in the BIOS inbetween adding cards, too. If you do that, then you'll probably have no IRQ problems. related note - disabling things like the FDC or COM2 doesn't release their IRQ's but mine is doing fine with 3 things sharing IRQ10 and two sharing IRQ9. ------------------ IP: Logged |
| Burmese Follower of Athlon |
posted September 25, 1999 19:31
Correction, thats 'reset the ESCD' above, not ACPI. Too many acronyms. ------------------ IP: Logged |
| bkswaney Celeron Worshipper |
posted October 05, 1999 22:14
I have a 500 Athlon with the FIC SD11 MB. 256 MB of PC100 Diamond Viper v770 ultra video card. "32MB" Diamond MX300 sound card. IBM deskstar ATA 66 HD I am using a 250 watt PS with no problems at all. This is the most stable PC I have ever seen. You cannot crash the dang thing. 5352 3D My Viper is clocked at 183-210 ------------------ IP: Logged |
| Pieter Follower of Athlon |
posted October 06, 1999 09:10
try adding a Voodoo2 :-) to the fic board, what reveision is your current board (above last isa slot) ? ------------------ Pieter :*) IP: Logged |
| Trader Celeron Worshipper |
posted October 13, 1999 23:55
YES! BCM QS-750 , Athlon 500/ oc 600 three weeks, rock soild and FAST! viper770u. The viper is holding it back! At any clock speed! IP: Logged |
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