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Hello all--

I am trying to rejuvenate an old 200 MHz Chaintech 7ATA mainboard. It has an 8MB card on it now, in a Universal slot, with 256MB of PC133 and a K6 700MHz proc.

I've recently benchmarked the FSB & the memory r/w with AIDA32, and the AMD scores bested this old CuMine 997MHz by a good bit with the same 256 Kingston RAM.

I'd like to use at least a 64MB AGP solution to see what kind of framerates I can get, then upgrade if it seems realistic to do so. I do much building and teching, so selling un-needed parts is a snap.

This will be a backup gaming PC for me & the SO.

Can't afford too much right now; want to save for a killer P4 system with heavy-duty GPU and much RAM. My only other PC presently is a Compaq 5000 series with PCI only....with the MX 400 GeF 2 I get from 5 to 15 FPS in Morrowind! (Just awful.) This HAS to do better than that!

Anyone have any ideas? Has anyone gotten decent performance from this MOBO? Please let me know!!

Thanks in advance,

Eric

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First off welcome to the board glad you have decided to join us. I hope you like what you find here as the people are the friendliest you will find anywhere.

I found these spec's for that card if you do not have them already

ChipSet
VIA Apollo KX133 ( VT8371 / 686A )
two chip 4 x AGPset
Processor
Support AMD K7 CPU (100MHz DDR transfer )
System Clock 100 / 133MHz
CPU Type Slot A
AGP
Supports AGP 1x / 2x / 4 X AGP cards
Memory
Socket 168-pin 3.3V unbuffered DIMM x 3
Type PC-100 ,PC-133 SDRAM (VCM )
Size 768MB
ECC single bit
Award BIOS Function PnP , DMI , Multi-device booting
Protect Trend ChipAwayVirus
Optional TwinBIOS
IDE
PIO Mode 4
Multi-word DMA Mode 2
Ultra DMA-66 timings
Audio
Embedded AC'97 v2.1 compliant CODEC
Optional CMedia 8738 audio chip w/legacy audio SB16/Pro compatible
Super I/O
Serial port 2 UARTs support and IR support for HPIR and ASKIR (up to 115.2Kbps)
Parallel port SPP/ECP/EPP
Floppy Support 2.88MB, Japanese 3Mode and 1Mbps transfer mode
Embedded USB
UHCI compliant USB host controller with Root Hub
4 USB ports ( UHCI v1.0 compliant )
Optional USB riser with 2 additional USB ports
Expansion slots
5x PCI, 1x ISA, 1x AGP, 1x AMR
Dimensions
ATX form factor , 305mm x 210mm , 4 layers
I/O Connectors
PC99 compliant colored code
PS/2 Mini-DIN Keyboard & Mouse ports
Two USB ports
Two 9-pin D-SUB Serial ports
One 25-pin D-SUB Printer port
One 15-pin Game / MIDI port
Audio Line-out , Line-in and Mic-in jacks
Features
Complete Data Security :
- Flash BIOS write protection
- Trend ChipAway Virus to ensure
virus-free booting procedure
- Embedded Flash Utility
- Embedded HDD Instant
- Recovery protect against system crash
Embedded system monitor hardware
Advanced Management Capabilities:
Power-on events:
- WOL (Wake-On-LAN) network card
- Modem ring
- RTC Alarm
- Software power-off control for Win95
- Over-ride power button
Three states Power-failure recovery
Chassis intrusion detection
Blinking LED in suspend,
Hardware design meets Microsoft PC99 requirements
Poly-fuse overcurrent protection for USB and keyboard
ACPI STR ready


From your other post I would think the ATI card your friend has would work why don't see if you can borrow it for a day or two to test it out and see how it works and go from there.

Joe

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Use an nVidia GF2 MX 200 64Mb or GF4 MX440 64Mb or a Ati Radeon 9200 64/128Mb are 4x compatibles and cheap

Note... Install latest drivers for your motherboard and video card...
K6 Processor at 700Mhz Which processors is??

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I spent about 60$ on the SiS Xabre 400 on ebay. 128MB video ram, very overclockable, currently mine runs stock at about 225mhz, dual head vga and lcd, Svideo out...

i beleive its come down. Its an off brand but hey it works.