Mike Andrawes van AnandTech heeft een review gepost van de Tyan S1854 Trinity 400, een moederplank met VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset. Bijzonder is dat dit bord voorzien is van zowel een slot1 als socket370. Verder zijn er dankzij de 6 aanwezige PCI slots voldoende expansie mogelijkheden voor de toekomst. Overklokkers kunnen zichzelf te goed doen aan de 12 beschikbare busspeed settings, die via het BIOS ingesteld kunnen worden:
problem that does exist with the Trinity 400 is that when using the FC-PGA Pentium III, there is no way to force the board to detect the CPU as a 133MHz FSB CPU (since there is no way to change the pin state on the CPU itself, i.e. no jumpers on a socketed CPU) so the AGP divider is always set to 2/3.Unfortunately, because of this problem, we were unable to boot the Trinity 400 at anything above 124MHz with the FC-PGA in the socket. This renders the Socket-370 virtually useless for overclocking an FC-PGA CPU to 133 MHz FSB, one of the main purposes of this board in our mind. Since a Socket-370 to Slot-1 adapter can be used in the Slot-1 interface on the Trinity 400, this problem can be avoided. Simply configure the adapter to indicate a 133 MHz CPU and the motherboard will automatically set the AGP and PCI ratios and pick a 133 MHz FSB. From there, you can work with Tyan's jumperless FSB settings. It would have been nice if Tyan had included jumper settings to force the detection of any CPU used as a 66/100/133MHz FSB CPU.
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