Best Socket 7 platfrom

[Guest]

What would people widely herald as the best Socket 7 mobo? I need one which I can use a AMD K6-III+ in and I want an AGP slot. Otherwise I am pretty flexible. I was looking to see what one has the highest FSB possibility. Also which one has the closest FSB ramping speeds (100, 105, 110, 115, 120, etc). Finally I don't want it to be too expensive. But, please, give me feedback on any of the items I am interested in. I know it's a dead platform but I am interested nonetheless. Thanks.

 

[Ncogneto]

I have a soltek sl54-u1 running an amd k63+450 as we speak. It is my workbench computer ( I have 3 pc's a p3 750@825, an Athalon 850 and it)

It would not be fair to say it is the best due to my limited experiences with the k63+ it runs very very well on that board. The board has along with the standard 66.6,75,83.3,95,and 100 mhz bus settings, settings for 112,124 and 133 as well. My current settings are:

2.1volts
112 FSB
4.5 multiplier
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504 mhz

I can and have succesfully run this chip at 100 X 5.5 for 550 but I test higher all around running at 504 with 112 FSB.
I get a cpumark99 score of 56.2 which is dam good for any socket 7 cpu and plain spanks most celerons as well. If you are curious as to a full set of winbench test drop me an email and I will send them to you. A couple of things I must add about this cpu however for there are alot of myths circulating around about it right now. First, just because your mobo runs the k6-2 or k6-3 does not mean that it will boot with this cpu I have had several boards that would not. You need to make sure you mobo manufactorer has a bios thats supports it. Second, it does not contain the athlon fpu unit as some people say but the fpu of the k6-2,3. This is a real bummer. Still dollar for dollar if you already have a mobo that will run it it is well worth the money, you can pick them up right now for 64 bucks.

 

[Guest]

Ali Aladdin V: Fastest. Gigabyte 5AX or ASUS P5A are the best

VIA MVP3: Slower, but not in cases where it has 2MB of Level 2 Cache. EPoX MVPG5 is the best


I prefer ALi, but needs the latest AGP drivers!

 

[Bubba]

From what I have read, the Asus P5A is the best. But I got one and wasn't impressed. I had a lot of problems. People have told me that I must have gotten a bad board because no one else has had the problems that I have had with it.
That was the last thing I ever bought at a computer show.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the help. I might try these recommendations at a later date because I have a K6-III+ successfully running at 500MHz (83.3MHZ FSB) in my HP 6343 at 2.0V and 2.0x (which equals 6.0x) multiplier. I have another to try for 600MHz in my PC Chips M590 board system.

 

[Guest]

I did a lot of reading and checked on availability in my aera and came up with the Epox MVP3 G5. The biggest reason was that it is probably the only socket 7 board that supports Ultra DMA 66.

It just flies and it performs comparably to the current Socket A boards which cost twice as much

 

[BrianL]

Your PC Chips 590 board will only hit 90 Mhz at the 100 Mhz setting so the best you will get at the CPU is 540 Mhz. They fibbed a little bit and the chipset is only rated at 83.3 Mhz

 

[Guest]

Does anybody have any expeince with the PC Chips M590 and the K6-III+ 450? I got the K6-III+ working fine in that HP 6343 (although it calls it a K5!), but I can't get the K6-III+ to get past the Bios on the PC Chips M590. Any ideas?

 

[BrianL]

What revision is your board and what is the bios date?

 

[BrianL]

I picked this up on another board from a very reliable source and it refers to installing a 500 Mhz chip on a 590 board so it may be applicable in your situation

"You need to set the CPU page to "User" mode, and then 2.2V, 2.0x, and 83 MHz for the K6-2/500. WARNING: Set the CPU parameters to something compatible with your new processor, or to "Auto", _BEFORE_ putting the new CPU in. (Note that "Auto" won't detect the speed grade, just the vendor and model.)"

 

[BrianL]

And yet another response

I doubt that there is any support for this CPU in the Bios, so CPU-PNP will not work.
You'll have to set the values manually.
Clear CMOS and install a known CPU (the one he had before). Now Enter CMOS and set the values to 2.0V, 66MHz(!) and x3 for a start.
Save and power down.
Now install the K6/3+ and check if that works. If it does, you may try to change the multiplier to x2 (=x6). If that still works, you may try higher bus speeds. If that locks the system up, set the PCI Bus speed to FSB/2 instead of fixed 33MHz.
NOTE: THIS DOES OVERCLOCK PCI, AGP and IDE AND YOUR SYSTEM MAY ACT FUNNY.

Still some features of the CDPU may be disabled due to lack of Bios-Support. Use third party software.