Bij 3D Alpha heeft men een review geschreven van de Tyan Tiger 133, een dual Slot 1 moederbord, net als de MSI 694D Pro en Gigabyte 6VXD7 gebaseerd op de VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset. Gereviewd wordt een nieuwe revisie 'F' van het moederbord, waar volgens Tyan alle bugs die bij de vorige revisies te vinden waren verholpen zijn. Deze versie was dan ook opmerkelijk stabiel:
Now, the easy installation isn't the only good thing about this board. It's stability is unmatched. Yes, I know, a bold statement, but in all of my testing of motherboard I have never seen a board put up with the stuff that this one has. I ran a Quake3 loop with Prime95 running in the background, while downloading of the internet, while running RC5 for 91 hours (that's a lot of MP3's) and then my lovely girlfreind decided one night (I assume it was her, she denies it...) to turn the computer off. So I did it again, for 72 more hours, and in all these hours (91+72=163 hours) there wasn't a single crash. Not bad... (oh, and on a side note, I can't believe the overclocked GeForce SDR I have in this thing held up to it either!)[break]Over de snelheid viel ook weinig te klagen. Zoals bekend zijn er geen spellen die veel profiteren van een SMP-systeem, maar het renderen in 3D Studio Max kreeg een flinke boost door de tweede processor. Enige nadeel was dat het moederbord geen fatsoenlijke mogelijkheden had tot overclocken:[/break]No overclocking. That's right, none, nadda, zip... Well, maybe some, but not without a lot of work, and not the traditional kind either. So, you have a couple of PIII 600E's that will do 800MHz without breaking a sweat? Well, not on this board you don't. There are no dipswitches, jumpers, or BIOS settings that allow you to change the FSB or volate in ANY WAY. This didn't just disappoint me, it pissed me off. I mean, I was so damn excited about this board, and then they go and smack me in the head with that. I have to say, if there was one reason I wouldn't go any tell everyone and their Mom to buy this board, this would be it.
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