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This page is dedicated to the overclockers and motherboard and CPU tweakers. If you have latest Super 7, Slot I, II, Xeon results, please contribute your results to the forum or email it directly to me at [email protected]

24/8/98 - Intel just released their Celeron 333 and 333a is released.

24/8/98 - ABIT might be releasing a new Super 7 motherboard. More information will be provided here.

18/8/98 - The distributor of ABIT BH6 in Singapore is :

Contact: Mr. Sukhdev Singh, Mr. Joshua Lim
Phone: +65-473-9898
FAX : +65-473-4512

18/8/98 - From reliable sources, ABIT will not be doing a Super 7 board. More information will be published. Keep a look out for it.

17/8/98 - Hello, I have finally managed to locate Wintune and run some tests on my BH-6 running at 496 MHz. My video score probably sucks because I'm using Matrox Millenlium and without 3d acceleration... I want to provide Quake 2 and Unreal timedemo scores but don't know how to run them, please post!!!
Don't know why Wintune thinks I have 484 instead of 496. Any ideas???

CPU (1) Intel Celeron @ 484 MHz
Video Board Matrox MGA Millennium
Video Mode 800x600@8 bits/pixel
RAM 128 MB
OS Windows 98 4.10.1998
Browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98)

Area Tested Value % of Ref*
CP Integer 1450 MIPS 154 %
CPU Floating Point 574 MFLOPS 152 %
Video (2D) 69.6 MPixels/s 88 %
Direct3D 41.3 MPixels/s 74 %
OpenGL 8.4 MPixels/s 103 %
Memory 754 MBytes/s 134 %
Cached Disk C:\ 80 MBytes/s 94 %
Uncached Disk C:\ 1.84 MBytes/s 73 %

Higher numbers are better.
*The reference machine is currently a 333 MHz Pentium II with 64 MB of RAM and a Permedia-based video board with 8 MB of video RAM.

Blackhole, a user of my forum has posted his results on overclocking celeron 266 (SL2QG) to 496Mhz (124 x 4). You can read his posting in the forum and also the benchmark results real soon !

Extracted from Overclockers' forum.

I have succeeded to run the SL2QG at 496 MHz!!! Still can't get 4x133MHz. Please be patient as I will upload my complete system configuration and setting later on. Please realize that I don't have a 3D card but I can install Quake 2 and Unreal to get you unaccelerated benchmarks. Please respond back and let me know where I can get benchmark programs and what to do in Quake and Unreal to get you my scores.

I want to thank sincerely anyone who has contributed on this forum and others. Without you guys I wouldn't have picked the Celeron and wouldn't know what mobo, PC100 DIMM and stepping of Celeron to get. You guys all made this happen for me, and I appreciate that...

Hardware config

- Abit BH-6, v1.01, FL BIOS
- Intel Celeron 266 SL2QG (needless to say)
- Samsung 128 MB -GH CAS 2, real Samsung/SEC SDRAM chip and module. KMM366S1623BT on module and KM48S8030B on chips. Bought at Mushkin, THE BEST
- OEM Adaptec 2940U PCI SCSI controller, bios 1.23S3
- 3COM 3c95x 10/100 PCI Ethernet adapter
- Matrox Millenlium (not Millenlium II) 4MB PCI
- Creative Labs SoundBlaster 64 Gold
- Aopen 32x EIDE CD-ROM
- Panasonic CW-7502 4x/8x SCSI CD-R, bios 4.10
- Quantum FireBall S? 3.2 GB, EIDE
- SuperMicro SC701A, mid tower

The following is an extract from my Overclockers' forum regarding BH6 using 1/4 PCI at 133???

I received email this morning from two different sources at Abit regarding the BH6 using a 1/4 clock divider at the 133FSB speed. The following are the messages I sent and the responses I received:

1) Sent: Monday, August 10, 1998 10:47 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: BH6 and 133FSB

To Whom It May Concern:

I have heard recently that the Abit BH6 is using a 1/4 PCI clock divider when it is using the 133MHz FSB setting. Is this information correct?

To: LJ/SSD/CSC
cc:
Subject: RE: BH6 and 133FSB

yes

2) From: [email protected]

At 07:19 PM 1998/8/11 -0400, you wrote:
>To Whom It May Concern:
>
> Does the BH6FL BIOS allow the BH6 to use a 1/4 PCI >clock divider when using the 133MHz FSB speed?

Dear Sir/Ms:

The system will autodetect it and use a 1/4 PCI clock divider when using the 133MHz FSB speed even the specs
does not show it.

Best regards,
abit./fae

Looks like there IS a perfect mobo out there! I do not know what specs on the mobo will not show the PCI clock speed because I do not have one yet. As more people get their boards, it would be great to hear that they are actually achieving the 1/4 reduction in PCI clock speed.

Pentium II Overdrive processor for Socket 8 Pentium Pro (12/8/98)
VIA MVP4 chipset (10/8/98)
The 1stMainboard PA-2013 Ready for AMD(R) K6(R)-2 Series (7/8/98)
Cyrix new processor - Japaleno (7/8/98)
IBM's chip technology could extend battery life, performance (4/8/98)
Faster Pentium IIs, Celerons Arrive (4/8/98)

Latest AMD pricing for it's processors effective 1 Aug 98.

Processor

AMD price

333-MHz K6-2

$237

300-MHz K6-2

$157

266-MHz K6-2

$119

300-MHz K6

$112

266-MHz K6

$86

AMD has quietly providing samples of a 350-MHz version of its current flagship K6-2 processor family to select Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers.

To date, AMD's fastest K6-2 runs at 333 Mhz. The 350-MHz version will mark only an incremental upgrade, the addition of the on-chip cache memory to the K6-3, which is planned to run at 400 MHz, will give the new processor a significant performance boost.

The K6-3 will fit into Socket/Super 7 architectured motherboards . AMD expects to have mobile versions of the K6-3 ready by the first quarter of next year, the AMD company representative said.

- IDG News Service (25/7/98)

Mendocino will be released on 24 Aug 98.

A 300-MHz and 333-MHz version of the Mendocino Celeron processor -- the code name for a Celeron part with 128 kilobytes of cache integrated onto the die -- will be introduced this quarter, rather than the fourth quarter as originally planned. Intel will also add a 366MHz Celeron with 128KB of integrated L2 cache to the lineup. That chip will be released in the first half of 1999. Intel will also release a new chipset, code-named Whitney, that integrates the graphics accelerator chips for use in Celeron-based low-cost PCs in the first half of 1999.

- Techweb (22 July 1998)

13 September 1998 11:35:04 AM