Got my new "old" board today!

[Crashman]

DAMN ACPI I forgot that the BX was not 100% ACPI compliant and spent 3 hours trying to find a bug. Turned off ACPI in BIOS and all is well. Get this-the BX is such a great chipset that I reinstalled my previously uncooperative STB TVPCI-FM card and everything else without reinstalling windows. 3DMark 2001 scores are about 1% higher than with the CUSL2. Pretty impressive considering AGP2x and UDMA33 limmitations. My Tualatin+iP3/T should be here at the end of the week! Time for some heavy overclocking on the most stable chipset ever made!

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

 

[HonestJhon]

congrats....
that is nuts...
the cusl2 was supposed to be faster.
lol
crazy!
glad to hear that this "old" board is outperforming the "new" board.hehe


-DAvid

-Live, Learn, then build your own computer!-

 

[Crashman]

It's not so nuts, look up those old "150MHz Project" articles Tom wrote over a year ago. In the end he recommends the CUSL2 over the CUBX because it has a lower AGP multiplier and is otherwise designed for a 133MHz system bus. Me wishing I would have stuck with my gut instict and got the BF6 to begin with.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

 

[girish]

The 815 could have qualified as the SuperBX, but strangely Intel left it with a mere 512MB memory addreseability! The only blemish on a fine chipset. Otherwise, BX is still my favorite server chipset.

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[Crashman]

BX has a little better stability and better memory performance. The i815 was designed to be "just a tad slower" than the i820 RDRAM solution, but ended up outperforming it (it seems Intel didn't take the high latency of RDRAM into account at the time).

What's the frequency, Kenneth?