Bij anand hebben ze een Gigabyte moederbord gestest, een vrij standaard ding met 1 'bijzondere' feature: een dubbele bios, voor het geval er eens iets mis gaat met het flashen. Verder is ie vrij kaal: geen voltagetweaking, en fsb tot 133 MHz.

The BX2000 avoided the more conventional jumper driven configuration, yet refrained from boasting a fully jumperless design, leaving Gigabyte with the remaining option, a single dip-switch solution. The dip-switch is an easily accessible area of the motherboard, and its possible settings are clearly documented on the motherboard directly above it. The BX2000 supports the standard set of FSB frequencies, and unfortunately doesn't feature the newer 153MHz clock generator present on the BX6 Revision 2 and the AOpen AX6BC. The 112MHz, 124MHz, and 133MHz settings should be no stranger to the BX motherboard scene, and those are the settings Gigabyte provided unofficial support for. The BX2000 also allows, via a single jumper, the user to set the AGP frequency at a 1 to 1 ratio (66MHz FSB) with the FSB frequency or a 2 to 3 ratio (100MHz FSB). Remember that the failure to include any other ratios is not the fault of the motherboard manufacturer, as the AGP clock frequency is a function of the chipset. Intel won't introduce any additional AGP clock dividers with the BX chipset, however VIA should be the first to introduce another divider with their Apollo Pro Plus 133 already announced. The bottom line? The 133MHz FSB is highly unreliable, even at the 2:3 ratio, for systems with AGP video accelerators.

Dit is een update van de review van maart. In deze update worden meer 133 Mhz. reepjes getest.

In AnandTech’s March ‘99 SDRAM Comparison it was quite clear that achieving great stability at the 133MHz FSB frequency was quite difficult. With the only SDRAM featured in the comparison able to make it up to 133MHz at 100% stability being the pricey EMS HSDRAM modules, the outlook for VIA’s upcoming 133MHz chipsets did not look too great. Luckily, for VIA’s sake and for the sake of the upgrading population out there, there are some enhancements being made in the search for true PC133 SDRAM. After supplying AnandTech with the Samsung based SDRAM modules from the March ’99 SDRAM Comparison, Corsair Microsystems decided to pursue a different avenue for their products. Instead of using Samsung modules as the basis for their SDRAM modules of above average stability, Corsair went back to the old days and pursued a once very well known memory chip manufacturer, Micron, to help with the production of their next-generation PC133 SDRAM modules.

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Caldera komt komende maandag met OpenLinux 2.2. Ze zeggen een gebruikersvriendelijke installatie zonder command- prompt te hebben ontwikkeld.

Caldera Systems will introduce a consumer-friendly desktop version of OpenLinux next Monday that lets users install and run the upstart operating system without ever seeing a confusing command line interface. Historically, Linux has largely appeared as server software, but OpenLinux 2.2 is an attempt to reach an increasingly large group of people who want to try out the relatively new operating system. More than half of Linux sales now are to people with no Linux or Unix experience, said Caldera Systems chief executive Ransome Love. "We have a real alternative to Windows now," added Lynn Nielson, Caldera's development director, acknowledging that one problem has been the lack of a good graphical installation routine for Linux.