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>>ABIT Computer Corporation Releases A Breakthrough Product:  
>>The Jumperless Pentium Mainboard

>>come to visit our web site  for detail spec.

>>our web site : www.abit.com.tw



>>What happened to the mainboard when the user friendly trend swept the
>>world of computers?  Isn't manually setting CPU parameters with jumpers 
>>and DIP switches an anomaly among the Pentium processor and Windows 95?
>>ABIT Computer Corporation, a top 10 mainboard manufacturer in Taiwan is 
>>ready to bring the industry up to speed with it's release of the world's 
>>first Jumperless Pentium Mainboard.  


>>ABIT will be giving a demonstration of these and other mainboards 
>>at booth #S3970 at COMDEX Fall/96. 
>
>>We are looking for agents or distributors world wide.
>

>AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
>
>A true nightmare.  A motherboard without jumpers !
>Could this be the end of overclocking ?

I always shop for the boards with the most jumpers. In this Windoze age
people running anything else are pushed to the side. I remember having
4 devices trying to grab interrupt 5 while I was running solaris. I had
to install dos to boot the machine (4.0 was the last only I had),
reconfigure 2 of the devices, left one at 5, and ran out to CompUSA
and begged a sales person to dig in the back and find me an old SoundBlaster
card with some jumpers on it.

On another note, I never overclocked my P90 because there were no simple jumpers
available on my board. Now that I have got my goliath pro 200 (quad processor),
there is a very simple jumpering scheme that is idiot proof and well
documented.
	eg. jumper A -> 200mhz 66hmz bus
	    jumper B -> 180mhz 66hmz bus
	    jumper C -> 233mhz 66mhz bus
	    jumper D -> warp 10

Well I haven't ventured to warp 10 yet, but 233mhz is fine with me.



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