Op Ace's Hardware vond ik een zeer interessant stukje nieuws, daar is iemand die zegt dat je met behulp van wat gekloot met de pinnetjes op de Thunderbird de multiplier kan instellen
. Tot hoever dit correct is weet ik niet, ik kan het namelijk niet zelf testen, maar als het klopt is het zeker goed nieuws voor tweakers die er over denken om een Thunderbird of Duron aan te schaffen:
Some time ago, I mentioned the possibility of altering the golden bridges on the Tbird and Duron packaging to change the CPU bus multiplicator. While I still have no clue about whether or not it is possible in practice, I discovered something potentially interesting that I want to share.
Look at these pictures of a Duron 700 and a TBird 1000, resp.Consider the group of golden bridges labelled "L6".
Duron 700 : 1 0 0 0 (top down) TBird 1000: 1 1 1 0
Now, please turn you attention to AMD TBird tech doc page 62.
You will notice that these sequences correspond to a multiplier of respectively 7 and 10. This could indicate that group "L6" controls the bus multiplier. A sure way to verify this would be to use a sharp pen with a soft tip, and connect all the bridges in the L6 group of a TBird 1000. If the hypothesis is correct, it will be recognised as a TBird 1100! If not, of course, the part may fail, and at this point you had better erase the traces you have just drawn. BTW, Anand has a picture of a Duron 800 and the mulitpliers are interpreted as being 8 in this hypothesis ( 1 0 1 0 ). I do not know about you, but if I had a TBird handy, I would try something.
But what if it does not boot because of the voltage? Then turn your attention to group L7.
Duron 700 : 0 1 1 1 0 (bottom up) TBird 1000: 0 0 0 1 0
While the Duron 700 setting seems to correspong to 1.5 V, the expected setting, the Tbird 1000 would be 1.8 V (which is 0.05 V up from AMD specifications). This said, still in this frame of interpretation, Anand TBird 800 settings ( 0 0 1 1 0 ) correspond to 1.7 V, the expected setting.
The second part is less convincing because of the issue of the Tbird 1000, but all in all I think this is pretty interesting. Tweak on?


Maxtor Corporation today announced that the company is now shipping Ultra ATA/100 DiamondMax(TM) IDE hard disk drives. Maxtor's DiamondMax 60, DiamondMax Plus 40 and DiamondMax VL 30 hard drives can support data transfer rates of 100 MB per/second in all systems that support the new Ultra ATA/100 standard.


Der SiS730S bietet im Unterschied zum SiS630 jedoch auch einen externen
AGP-4X-Anschluss, sodass anstelle der eingebauten Grafik eine separate
AGP-Grafikkarte nachgerüstet werden kann. Für den Kontakt zur
Außenwelt stehen Modemfunktionen sowie ein
10/100-MBit-LAN-Adapter zur Verfügung, auch Klänge verarbeitet der
Chip ohne Zusatzbausteine. Zwei Ultra-ATA/100-fähige EIDE-Kanäle, ein
PCI-Bus-Interface und sechs USB-Ports sorgen für Anschluss im
Legacy-Free-PC. Wenn noch herkömmliche Tastatur-, Maus-, Drucker-
und serielle Schnittstellen und ein ISA-Bus gewünscht werden, ist der
Zusatzbaustein SiS950 nötig. Dieser bietet auch Überwachungsfunktionen
für Temperaturen und Spannungen im Inneren des PC.
AMD launched its Thunderbird Athlons on Monday, but a source at a major mobo
manufacturer said today that it had been encouraged to launch designs based on a
Via solution rather than one from the microprocessor company.
IBM said today that it plans to show off a ThinkPad notebook based on a processor from upstart Transmeta at a trade show later this
month.
One major Taiwanese mobo maker told The Register today that there was little or no
demand for mobos using Rambus, especially following the recent debacle over the
withdrawal of 820 chipsets using the infamous memory translator hub.






















During this first day in Computex, I was able to throw(cast) a blow of
test on a machine based around the Intel's future processor Willamette
(future " Pentium IV " ) put rythm to 800 Mhz (where are the 1.5 Ghz?).
The motherboard was for its part based on a chipset i850, and used
naturally some memory Rambus. I was able to make a fast benchmark
on this machine results? With a GEFORCE 2 GTS, 230 in CPU 3D mark
and 4157 in the 3D mark, under 3D Mark 2000 while with a PIII 600 a
similar configuration obtained 388 in CPU 3D mark and 5136 in the 3D
mark!.
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