Christian Ney Posted April 8, 2011 Posted April 8, 2011 For overclocking by the cmos, you mean 1 Mhz increment ? Or any Bus change ?
Massman Posted April 8, 2011 Posted April 8, 2011 (edited) Why is everyone so hooked on marketing slogans? I don't think "our first attempt to bring a mainboard dedicated to overclocking to the market, with compromises for sales and management, that does not have 90% of the features you disable anyway" is catchy enough to put on a box. SOOO, if this was an attempt to debunk the myth that marketing always tell the full 100% truth, then 'hooray' you succeeded. Now, let's stop moaning about the marketing slogans. Waste of space and time. Regarding the questions, pretty sure it'll be either Abit or ASUS on all questions. //edit: or Soyo! Edited April 8, 2011 by Massman
Christian Ney Posted April 8, 2011 Posted April 8, 2011 (edited) Thx for editting and Soyo been added Anyway, you are talking about adding OC features. What Gigabyte (Hicookie) did, they had nuts to release something that wad looking like a prototype or a only one sample board to only be showed at events, like Asus PinotNoir and Marine Cool. They didnt only showed that its possible to make a dedicated OC board they will show that its possible to sell it and find customers My english is a bit limited but you will understand Edited April 8, 2011 by Christian Ney
Massman Posted April 8, 2011 Posted April 8, 2011 My first instincts make me think about the 440BX chipset. Some boards had limited FSB adjustment capabilities (in big steps). In those days, Abit was a big player. I think it was called "SoftMenu" or so.
Christian Ney Posted April 8, 2011 Posted April 8, 2011 My first instincts make me think about the 440BX chipset. Some boards had limited FSB adjustment capabilities (in big steps). In those days, Abit was a big player. I think it was called "SoftMenu" or so. Yes its softmenu
Massman Posted April 8, 2011 Posted April 8, 2011 Did some quick googling: Chaintech was in there as well with SeePU BIOS extention (~ Abit's Softmenu). It already featured on a Socket7 board with 430TX chipset (5TDM2) in '97.
Hondacity Posted April 8, 2011 Posted April 8, 2011 abit....first to....change fsb via bios asus used dip switches...around 1997-1998 lol
Crew Antinomy Posted April 8, 2011 Crew Posted April 8, 2011 Yes, Abit Softmenu was the first. Then was chaintech and pcchips. I've got a PCchips board based on sis 5597/5591 socket 7 which has voltage, multi and might be (not absolutely sure here) FSB in BIOS. Intel implemented this in their 975XBX Bad axe board say... ten years later? LOL
Schmuckley Posted March 30, 2012 Posted March 30, 2012 When I started overclocking..It was on.hmm..AST socket 5 or 7..Bios and CMOS were fully open to tweaking.
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