Mighty Joe
06-14-2001, 01:23 PM
Hey all,
I have the Biostar M7VKB (v.1). I bought this system back in last summer with an 800 t-birds. At the time 900 had just come out and the price for the 800 dropped. Well, Now we've got the 1.4 and so on... But as the prices for the "next best" drops, I was wondering if a 1.3 gig thunderbird would have any problems. According to the US site, it can handle the 1.3 but the Taiwan site says 1.2. It also says to put a chipset fan on. I saw the blue orb, but that means i would have to take the heatsink off.
Is there a fan i can just screw on to the top, or should i just take off the heatsink?
Another question is, this biostar mb doesnt allow for change of multipliers, the pins have been removed and it's specific location is not evident on the board. In terms of getting the Asus motherboard that supports sdram and putting in the 1.3 266 t-bird, is there much of a performance difference? I figure the 1.3 gig at 200 has the best economic to performance ratio. Any suggestions?
I have the Biostar M7VKB (v.1). I bought this system back in last summer with an 800 t-birds. At the time 900 had just come out and the price for the 800 dropped. Well, Now we've got the 1.4 and so on... But as the prices for the "next best" drops, I was wondering if a 1.3 gig thunderbird would have any problems. According to the US site, it can handle the 1.3 but the Taiwan site says 1.2. It also says to put a chipset fan on. I saw the blue orb, but that means i would have to take the heatsink off.
Is there a fan i can just screw on to the top, or should i just take off the heatsink?
Another question is, this biostar mb doesnt allow for change of multipliers, the pins have been removed and it's specific location is not evident on the board. In terms of getting the Asus motherboard that supports sdram and putting in the 1.3 266 t-bird, is there much of a performance difference? I figure the 1.3 gig at 200 has the best economic to performance ratio. Any suggestions?