Biostar MB8500TUC

[FIXINMANN]

Is this mobo worth keeping and upgrade from a cyrix 133 chip or change mobo's and go higher than 200mhz??

[800XL]

Change boards. Even getting an Intel MMX chip on the 8500TUC can be a problem. There is a flaw in the multiplier selection pins and most TUCs have no way to get a Pentium MMX chip to run higher that 166Mhz because of it.

I still have one of these boards running NT with a boatload of RAM. The one and only nice thing about them is that HX chipset can cache a lot more RAM than FX, VX, or even TX chipset boards. If I were you, I would pick up something newer and use the old TUC to learn more about Linux or something.

[beller6]

800XL is absolutly right. Your asking for trouble, and overclocking the Biostar isn't the answer. I used to use that motherboard 3 computers ago.

[FIXINMANN]

Thanks for the info, I am new at getting inside the box.