Ok, I left my momentary nforce2 temptation and I got a refund for the soltek nforce2 that worked for 30 seconds.
I decided to keep faith on SiS and I´m not regretting. I exchanged my XP2400+ for a XP2600 333 Mhz fsb and bough a almost offensive cheap Asrock K7S8X (SiS 746FX). Piece of cake to set up, WinXP tricked me a bit as after a flawless installation it wouldn´t start. Trick was start on safe mode and install SP1.
Anyway, after that cumbersome issue, same smoothness and stability as my former ECS K7S5A, I´m now slowly upping the fsb, just at 170 right now. Considering that´s 2 sticks of Crucial DDR 266 @ CAS 2.5, now that´s why it pays up to invest on good memory...
Just ran a couple of 3dfarts 2001 and 2003, all flawless and smooth. Seems good.
What seems even more curious is that there´s jumpers to set fsb from 100/133/166/200 Mhz And more - it works with proper AGP and PCI divisors http://www.ocworkbench.com/ocwb/ulti...;f=42;t=000947
I decided to keep faith on SiS and I´m not regretting. I exchanged my XP2400+ for a XP2600 333 Mhz fsb and bough a almost offensive cheap Asrock K7S8X (SiS 746FX). Piece of cake to set up, WinXP tricked me a bit as after a flawless installation it wouldn´t start. Trick was start on safe mode and install SP1.
Anyway, after that cumbersome issue, same smoothness and stability as my former ECS K7S5A, I´m now slowly upping the fsb, just at 170 right now. Considering that´s 2 sticks of Crucial DDR 266 @ CAS 2.5, now that´s why it pays up to invest on good memory...
Just ran a couple of 3dfarts 2001 and 2003, all flawless and smooth. Seems good.
What seems even more curious is that there´s jumpers to set fsb from 100/133/166/200 Mhz And more - it works with proper AGP and PCI divisors http://www.ocworkbench.com/ocwb/ulti...;f=42;t=000947
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