Hot Hardware liet een aantal BIOS tweaks los op de Tyan Trinity 400 plank met VIA Apollo Pro 133A. Gisteren hebben we bij AnandTech al kunnen lezen dat de performance van de Apollo Pro 133A met de juiste BIOS settings behoorlijk verbeterd kan worden. De Tyan plank van Hot Hardware kwam redelijk in de buurt van de 440BX en heeft bovendien als voordeel dat de Apollo chipset voor overklokkers flexibeler is dan de oude BX met 2/3 AGP divider:
Once again the VIA chipset lags but not by much. In addition, the VIA could take our CPU to heights of over clocking with our GeForce card, that the BX couldn't. Without the 1/2 AGP Divider capability of the VIA board, the BX couldn't load Windows at anything higher than a 133MHz. Front Side Bus. Yes, you could probably plug in a PCI Graphics card and then overclock the BX to your hearts delight but what would be the point? You would have to be utilizing old graphics technology to do it?[...] With the VIA Apollo Pro133A chipset we are able to overclock the system well beyond 133MHz. Front Side Bus to a high of 150MHz. We were also able to achieve this with a GeForce DDR AGP card. No amount of tweaking would allow us to do this with the BX board.
