[NTLUG:Discuss] EZ-BIOS I ran as fast as I could.

[Gregory A. Edwards]

I've built 3 FIC MB boxes, 2 PA2007 (Cyrix 6x86 PR200 & AMD K6 233) and 1 
VA503+ (AMD K6-2 350).  Some folks (as noted) don't like the jumpers on
them but I figure once I've got it setup and buttoned-up the box who cares
about the jumpers.  These puppies run rock solid and fast, the Cyrix I've
got setup with linear burst and all 3 have 1M cache.  They can take lots
of RAM and ECC as well.  I run 128M ECC SDRAM in my primary Linux box in
a single slot.  In my son's box (VA503+) I put 64M ECC PC100 single slot
as well.  I'll probably use an FIC MB on my next system as well.  The only
grip I've got is that the new MBs all have AGP slots and my next box will
be a server so video is a non issue so the AGP slot burns 1 PCI slot.  I'm
greedy give me all the PCI slots I can get my hands on and kill off ISA:)

I won't comment on overclocking cause you don't want to here my opinion on
that:)

Greg E

> 
> After reading some of the post, and finding out that a BIOS upgrade was
> 79.99 for my computer, I went to Fry's today and purchased the 179.00
> package. The mother board is a VA-503+ (What ever that is), and the CPU is
> a AMD-K6 -2 450MHz. 
> 
> Dose anyone know anything about the mother board (good, bad, soso)?
> And will the AMD lend itself to overclocking the way the Intel CPU's do?
> Has anybody overclocked one, and how did it turn out?
> 
> Thanks everybody
> 
> Carter B. Bennett 
> Little House Computer Services
> http://www.fastlane.net/~lhcs
> 
> You may be able to kill two birds with one stone, but in the end when it's
> all over, all you really have are two dead birds, and your short one stone.
> Hummmmmm