Socket 7 Board Review July 1998

A-Trend ATC-5220

This board is only equipped with 512 kB 2nd level cache. This prevents this board to reach a very top performance; nevertheless it is one of the fastest among the 512 kB boards. I was able to run the Toshiba PC-66 SDRAM memory at 100 MHz; for a stable operation I had to reduce the memory timings, but a board running with memory clocked at 100 MHz and slow settings is normally faster than a 66 MHz memory system with fastest timings.

As with the Tyan motherboard the BIOS does not let you disable the power management completely.

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