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From: Kevin McKeown <kmc@gnd.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ASUS with 75/83MHz Bus speed?
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 17:08:02 +0100
Organization: GND Distribution Ltd
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Stefan Huerter wrote:

  Guckux

  are there any experiences with FreeBSD 2.2 and ASUS T2P4 Boards,
  clocking
  with 75 or 83MHz bus speed and AMD 166MHz CPU?

I'm running 2.1.5 on a T2P4 Rev 3.1 on a Intel Pentium 150 clocked at
200 (207.5MHz  - 2.5*83MHz).
No problems experienced with FreeBSD, Redhat Linux 4.1 and NT. Windows95
on an IDE drive crashes often but who cares :)

  any comaptibility problems with 2940 or ncr-conroller, DEC241?
  any other hints?

In my experience (I'm technical director at GND - biggest retailer of
ASUSTeK products in the UK) the overclocked T2P4 board does not work
well with Adaptec SCSI controllers. In fact the T2P4S, which has an on
board Adaptec 2940UW controller, has the jumpers for 75MHz operation
removed - so prehaps ASUS knows it won't work!

The ASUS SC875 (ultra/wide NCR) is fine as is DEC21041 based net cards.
Most graphics cards I've played with (Matrox, S3 of various flavours)
work well in an overclocked system.

For very good information and advice about overclocking, check out Tom's
Hardware Page at http://sysdoc.pair.com

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Kevin McKeown, Technical Director, GND Distribution Ltd
10 Indescon Court, Millharbour, London, E14 9TN, UK
Tel: +44 171 515 0100  Fax: +44 171 515 4404
Email: kmc@gnd.com   WWW: http://www.gnd.com