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abit@ms1.hinet.net (abit) wrote:


>>abit@ms1.hinet.net (abit) wrote:
>>>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.

>Panther-2@worldnet.att.net (Mark ) WROTE:
>>AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
>>A true nightmare.  A motherboard without jumpers !
>>Could this be the end of overclocking ?

>NO,NO,NO,THIS WILL BE THE START OF OVERCLOCKING.

>IT'S MORE CONVENIET TO VERIFY A CPU FOR DIFFERENT PARAMETERS SUCH LIKE
>CPU BRAND,EXTERNAL CLOCK,INTERNAL MULTIPLIER,AND VOLTAGE(Vcore and Vio).

>PROBABLY, YOU CAN SAD THIS M/B WILL BE THE KILLER OF CPU REMARKING.

Yea, but what happens when you set the MB for a clock speed the chip
can't handle and it freezes on bootup.  How are you then supposed to
change the jumpers to back off the bus speed so it will boot up?

Just curious.

L8r