I got new play toy!

[BBA]

An HP Vectra 400 demo model.
it came with:


733 P3 FC-PGA
128M Infineon Dimm
Smart card reader and cards
10X DVD
Intel integrated chipset that says "Intel Secret" on it for the part number....

and last but not least:

Matrox G450 built in! ( At least thats what the description said...but I can't find the vid chip in on the motherboard )

It has W2K pre-loaded but I have to download the video drivers.


I bet Krusin is gonna be jealous!
( Gee...I seem to have a spare G400 DH here,,,)

[brandon184]

Thats pretty cool.

How did you get it?

[rrick31]

thats cool BBA,so you opened the case up?if so do you you see dimm slots,

[BBA]

It has 2 dimm slots

[rrick31]

oh okay.the reason i had asked was i had seen something about intel working on a all every thing onboard such as the ram.i thought it had said to see it about the first of the year.and throught maybe you had pick one up.no big.but i do need to ask what you gave for it if you will.have fun

[BBA]

HP sends us these things to see if my company might want to start using them, as a preview.

There is no cost involved.

[Wiz]

have you tried overclocking the CPU BBA? check to see if it is multiplier locked or not. Some intel confidental ones are unlocked.

[BBA]

The bios has clock ratio and fsb options, but the CPU is locked at 5.5, and it's running 133MHz FSB already.

I did identify the chipset as a 815/Tinma SDRAM chipset with built in video ( and it still has an additional 4X AGP slot on the board )

I don't think it has a G450 vid chipset, I think that is an option HP can include though ( it does have the description of the 450 DH shipped in it's box though )

Still found no drivers from HP's eval site...I couldn't even get the site to come up today...must be HP's problem.

[voogru]

I got a new Play toy to!

My Computer Company stuck an PC chips M598LMR in my computer which has 2 PCI slots and 1 Isa Slot
I told them off that this mobo was a Piece of ***** and they sent me a new one. but they said i could keep the M598LMR! now I wont be using it (because Its a Piece of *****) so My Little Brother wanted a toy to play with http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif So I Gave Him my mobo now he throws it across the yard and into the concrete fence http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif it has lots of dents but still is in one piece If you have a mobo from PC Chips I reccomend you do the same! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif
or throw it away, torture it, or have a little fire over it and watch the chipsets explode much more fun than trying to get it to work!

So do what I did

Get Rid of any PC Chips mobo in some way or another. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

enjoy!

Voogru: If It cant run Half-Life its not worth a #@*!ing penny

[BBA]

A'men bro!

[socalgal]

Hope Peter Missel doesn't see that post, voogru http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

[BBA]

Well...no help from HP for drivers yet, so I went to Intel...which does not acknowledge the existance of this chipset on their sites...

I downloaded the latest Intel 810 video driver...it installed and played Q3A flawlessly. 39-40 FPS in default OpenGL 640x480, not bad for a built into the chipset video device. ( the chipset is no bigger than a normal BX chipset and has no cooling heatsink on it at all! )

I really like this chipset and want one setup in a dual CPU board! that would rock!.

I guess now I need to do memory benchmarks on it. ( I can only play with it in my spare time )