[plug]: weird box behavior

[Simon Scott]

	Not really. The MB I had said you could run at 133 FSB.  The
chipset, IIRC, *was* designed to go to 133 but a poor design decision
limited it to ~114 max. They copped a lot of poo over this chipset.

	They also had problems running at spec. I guess the poorly written
drivers didnt help (under windows) but while diagnosing my problems with the
board, I read a lot about other people's problems with them. 

	They were shite, even at 100Mhz.



	From:	Jason Nicholls <jason at mindsocket.com.au> on 29/10/2001 12:29
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	Subject:	Re: [plug]: weird box behavior

	On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 12:21:54PM +0800, Simon Scott wrote:
	> 	The KT133 chipset is notoriously bad, I think the max you
can push
	> the FSB to safely is 114Mhz, but when I had one it was in a
desktop machine
	> so it never ran for more than a day before being shutdown.

	You should say notoriously bad at running OVER spec. It was designed
for FSB
	operation at 100mhz max. Any higher than that was just luck. The
KT133A is
	designed for 133mhz although I'm sure it too can be overclocked to
some
	degree.

	> 	KNowing how bad my KT133 chipset was, Id swap the
motherboard out
	> before doing anything else. YMMV.

	He said he wasn't overclocking which I assume includes the FSB as
well as the
	CPU.

	Later,

	Jason Nicholls
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