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After two solid days of troubleshooting, I finally have my Abit IS7 system up and running. XP Home SP1 would not load. It would always fail at the same spot during "configuring devices". However, I installed my pirated XP Pro volume edition and an old copy of XP Home. So definately, there is a conflict with my setup and XP Home SP1. All benchmarks were done under Win98SE. I doubled a few benches under XP and noticed identical results.
As Thugs has mentioned about the 875 series, the NB Strap still has the same effect on the 865 series boards. I couldn't get CpuId to show the memory timings, but the results show how the timings are being modified by the board.
-Kingston Hyper-X 3500 2 x 256MB, Abit IS7, Radeon 7500, Shitty Phillipines 2.53 OEM (won't even do 3.0G reliably)
-FSB 133, NB Strap by CPU, Memory timings by SPD, Sisoft 3297 Int / 2874 Flot
-FSB 133, NB Strap 800, 1:1, 2-6-2-2, Sisoft 2950 Int / 2669 Flot Screen of NB Strap 800
-FSB 133, NB Strap 533, 1:1, 2-6-2-2, Sisoft 3290 Int / 2849 Flot Screen of NB Strap 533
-FSB 133, NB Strap 400, 3:4, 2-6-2-2, Sisoft 3361 Int / 3071 Flot Screen of NB Strap 400
-FSB 150, NB Strap 400, 3:4, 2-6-2-2, Sisoft 3797 Int / 3471 Flot Screen of NB Strap 400 at 150FSB
I'm still undecided on this board. The feature set can not be beat by any other boards (8 USB, 3 firewire, gigabit LAN, 2 SATA Raid 0, 6 channel sound, and SPIF in / out). Unfortunately, I can't get the USB controller driver to load, and XP SP1 is out of the question. :frown:
After two solid days of troubleshooting, I finally have my Abit IS7 system up and running. XP Home SP1 would not load. It would always fail at the same spot during "configuring devices". However, I installed my pirated XP Pro volume edition and an old copy of XP Home. So definately, there is a conflict with my setup and XP Home SP1. All benchmarks were done under Win98SE. I doubled a few benches under XP and noticed identical results.
As Thugs has mentioned about the 875 series, the NB Strap still has the same effect on the 865 series boards. I couldn't get CpuId to show the memory timings, but the results show how the timings are being modified by the board.
-Kingston Hyper-X 3500 2 x 256MB, Abit IS7, Radeon 7500, Shitty Phillipines 2.53 OEM (won't even do 3.0G reliably)
-FSB 133, NB Strap by CPU, Memory timings by SPD, Sisoft 3297 Int / 2874 Flot
-FSB 133, NB Strap 800, 1:1, 2-6-2-2, Sisoft 2950 Int / 2669 Flot Screen of NB Strap 800
-FSB 133, NB Strap 533, 1:1, 2-6-2-2, Sisoft 3290 Int / 2849 Flot Screen of NB Strap 533
-FSB 133, NB Strap 400, 3:4, 2-6-2-2, Sisoft 3361 Int / 3071 Flot Screen of NB Strap 400
-FSB 150, NB Strap 400, 3:4, 2-6-2-2, Sisoft 3797 Int / 3471 Flot Screen of NB Strap 400 at 150FSB
I'm still undecided on this board. The feature set can not be beat by any other boards (8 USB, 3 firewire, gigabit LAN, 2 SATA Raid 0, 6 channel sound, and SPIF in / out). Unfortunately, I can't get the USB controller driver to load, and XP SP1 is out of the question. :frown: