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    Question on Athlon, FIC and G400 MAX

    Hi All,

    I plan on upgrading my old PII 400 and got a chance to get an Athlon with a FIC motherboard and would like your recommendation on this board or combo with my MAX? Anyone here as that board or tested it? Any comments or suggestions before I get it?

    If so, does the G400 run in 2X? Any conflicts?

    I personnaly do not love FIC motherboard... too many problems and too slow... But I have no idea with this new board and slot A board.. freaks me out, so your help will indeed be appreciated... at least to calm me or stress the heck out of me!!! Anyone from Matrox with comments on this?

    Z
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  • #2
    I'd wait a little bit. I like my FIC board, but I hear that Asus's new K7M board is coming out now, and looks like a promising SlotA design.
    http://www.amdzone.com

    This guy does a pretty good job.

    Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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    • #3
      Ditto on that... the MS-6167 that I have is nice and stable but I'd hold out for the Asus myself if I were you.
      "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss

      "Always do good. It will gratify some and astonish the rest." ~Mark Twain

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      • #4
        Hi,

        Problem is that I need to buy it in the wekk to come... Furthermore, Asus recently released some pretty bad mobo's... there are starting to release to many different things and it shows on the general value of their Mobo's... Anyhow, I have asked for the FIC today... If I am not happy I'll change it right away....

        Thanks for your suggestions.

        Z

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        • #5
          I haven't checked in a few days, but... the FIC SD-11 does have a problem running at or above 650! A BIOS update is in the works... but if getting one with one of the faster Athlons... I'd get the MSI instead. Kyrotech is using them in their Athlon systems and they have'm running at 900 now!



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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
          6525 3Dmarks
          10998 CPUmarks
          Game 1 Race 73.7
          Game 2 First person 58.6
          Fill rate w/ multi-Texturing 291.6
          2meg texture rendering speed = 556 (640x480 16bit, double buffer)

          Q3 compkill.dm3 1024x768 All settings set to MAX except for color
          depth 16 bit and texture filter set to bilinear.
          26.3 fps

          Q3demo1.dm3 all setting to highest except, 16 bit color depth, set to bilinear and sky set low
          1600x1200 = 21.5
          1280x960 = 31.2
          1024x768 = 48.1
          800x600 = 74.6
          640x480 = 89.2
          Fastest = 111.4!

          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

          Drives benchmark
          Raid array
          Drive index = 15669

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


          "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss

          "Always do good. It will gratify some and astonish the rest." ~Mark Twain

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          • #6
            I heard of several issues with the MSI up to now... but the people did not have the patches.... but i will only get a 500 for now anyway...

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            • #7
              I have the same config (athlon 600, sd-11, max) and am very pleased with it. I find the whole no faster than 650 thing a little bothersome, but I figure I by the time I want a faster processor I'll have a new mobo with the via agp 4x chipset. If I were in your shoes, I would prolly wait for the asus though.

              --Jonathan


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              Athlon 600, fic sd-11, g400 max

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