K7 and Max...anyone, anyone, Buehler, Buehler???

[kelin]

Anyone out there paired the Max (or G400 Van) with a K7??? What are the probs, if any???I am planning on getting a K7 600 and the FIC mbo this week...and wondered what I was in for...
Thanks in advance...
Kelin

[Greebe]

No problems here using an OC'd Athlon500 @ 650 on a MSI 6167 mb and a Max. One thing though... there is a bug in the BIOS on th SD11 that effects stability at or above 650! This is being addressed by FIC... new BIOS coming soon.

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Greebe... who smiles alot

[Sprocket]

Greebe-
How did you o'c your athlon- fsb? I believe the clock multiplier is locked unless you own a special part that was supposed to be available this month but havent seen any yet.

[Speedy]

Kelin: Do not get FIC, get something else, like MS-6167 (that is what i have)
Sprocket: It is hard not to flame u for your reply (lol), Greebe likes soldering

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Matrox Millennium G400 Dual Head - English
Resolution 800*600
Color Depth 16-bit Color
Frame Buffer Triple buffering
Refresh Rate VSync Off
CPU Optimization AMD 3DNow!(tm)
3DMark Result 5420.49 3DMarks
Synthetic CPU 3D Speed 9142.76 CPU 3DMarks
Rasterizer Score 2206.33 3DRasterMarks
Game 1 - Race 63.58 FPS
Game 2 - First Person 47.24 FPS
Processor Type AMD-K7(tm) Processor
Processor Speed 500 MHz
Physical Memory 128 MB

[Greebe]

Sprocket, goto HardOCP
and take a look at the pictures of it!

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Greebe... who smiles alot

[Greebe]

And I'm making a plugin module to do the same right now... Pop the cover, plug it in, set, and your good to go!

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Greebe... who smiles alot

[Greebe]

Here ya go Speedy, new sig!

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System: Win98 + SP1, DX7; K7 500 @ 650; Modified Coolmaster
K7 heatsink/fan; MSI MS-6167, bios 1.3, AGP drivers 4.45 and IDE driver
4.45; Matrox G400 Max DH, bios 1.5-22, PD 5.3 & TurboGL, Cornerstone 50/95 21" monitor, 128 regular
PC100 sdram cas3 set to cas2; TB Quadzilla sound, latest Aureal driver
2.25; Promise FastTrack raid controller, bios 1.6; Twin IBM DTTA-171440
14.4 gb GXP series HD's, Linksys 10/100 pci nic, 3.5 floppy, Asus
CD-S400 cdrom, Imation IMW040420IA 4x4x20 CD-R/RW, bios 1.3; InWin Q500
full tower case w/ a 300w supply.

Scores:
3Dmark 99 Max 800x600 16bit triple buffered
6480 3Dmarks
10998 CPUmarks

Q3 compkill.dm3 configured All settings set to MAX except for color
depth =16 bit and texture filter set to bilinear.
26.3 fps

Q2demo1.dm2 + 3Dnow drivers all settings highest.
1024x768 = 82.1 fps
1280x960 = 53.4 fps
1600x1200 = 34.1 fps

Sandra 99 Pro
2154 Mips
840 mflops

CPU Multi-Media benchmark without utilising any new K7 capabilities
Integer MMX = 1356 it/s
Floating Point 3DNow! = 890 it's

Drives benchmark
Raid array
Drive index = 15669

Greebe... who's really smile'n lately

[Wombat]

I heard the original problems with the FIC were fixed with a BIOS update.(?)