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Some interesting news I saw posted on The Tech Report. Don't know how true it is but.. "An MSI rep at the AMD Tech Team dinner, when pressed very hard for info (I had to go steal the Asus rep's only pen for him), reported that the R126/R127 resistor mod on K7T266 affects memory type/speed...

Anand didn't make that stuff up. MSI has admitted that the resistor on R126 increases performance. However, it decreases stability. Thus the only board being manufactured by them currently is the one with the resistor on R127. The R126 board may come out later as a Turbo version once they...

Ahh, but remember, according to them (well, some of them) there is no resistor problem! I flashed my BIOS to 1.0B11. The BIOS setup now shows the "High System Performance" option. It seems they removed the "Load Fail-Safe Default" option. Another thing I noticed is under...

Check out this article. Not too much we don't already know, but it does have some benchamrks MSI ran so we can compare them to our results. The interesting thing is the screenshot of the BIOS Setup showing "High System Performance". I haven't seen this setting in any of the BIOSes...

Namuna: I went ahead and installed Win2K on my system last night. Since so many people seem to be having problem either running or just installing Win2K I figured I better give it a shot. I was able to install Win2K. I only had to minor issues where the computer spontaneously rebooted itself...

My board does the same thing, USB fails once I reach a FSB of 138-139. This is my first board I've tried overclocking with and initially thought it was just a side-effect of upping the FSB speed. I've gotten my system to run at 150MHz FSB but haven't really tested the stability. The system...

Ok, I did my own informal review of the "wrong/unfixed/unmodded" board based on the different BIOSes available. Since I'm running WinMe I haven't run into the stability problems others have using Win2K. I flashed my BIOS and set the BIOS setup values to an optimal setting (CAS 2...

Anand: I sent you an email with the 1.00 version of the BIOS. I've used it on my own system, so I know it works. I'm curious to see how the right/fixed/modded version of the board benchmarks with the original 1.00 BIOS.

Anand My hat definitely goes off to you as it's not easy to run a site like this and provide reviews to everyone's satisfaction. However, it definitely would be helpful to have a way to compare if it was the mod that gave the performance increase or the BIOS update. Like you pointed out...

I plugged my WBK38 into the fan header on the mobo and got similar speeds, max seemed to be 5900. I plugged it back into the power supply adapter and didn't notice any difference in speed, at least not by sound. It seems the first time I plugged it in (to my old system just to hear how loud it...

I used the AMI flash utility, which came in the zip file with the bios update. One important thing not to overlook is BIOS protection in the BIOS setup. Make sure BIOS Protection is disabled under Advanced Chipset Features. That was one thing that threw me at first. Once I switched it to...

I know 45C isn't bad, but from the HSF reviews I expected more down around 40C. Right now I'm just running at 1.33GHz. The 1.5GHz kills the USB and I need to use USB items. But it was fun to play around overclocking. I didn't do too much at that speed, just ran some Sandra benchmarks. It...

$pade: yea, I had it running at 1.5GHz (10*150FSB). I ran the auto overclock option in FLIII and it actually got it higher during its tests, around 1570MHz. I put my case together and now my system is running hotter, about 45C. I reran the auto overclock option and got similar results. My...

I posted this on the overclocking thread, but wanted to post it here as well. I switched the stock HSF with the WBK38 and added some AS and started playing with OCing the board. I was able to get it up to 150MHz FSB, the magic # I wanted to hit. The system ran ok, with a few lockups. USB...

Well, I switched from the stock HSF that came with the retail boxed 1.33GHz Tbird to my Globalwin WBK38 and added some AS instead of the thermal pad. I figured it was time to play around a little with OCing this thing. I was just using the Fuzzy Logic3 to play around. I was able to get the...