April 8, 201114 yr 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, 201114 yr by Massman
April 8, 201114 yr 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, 201114 yr by Christian Ney
April 8, 201114 yr 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.
April 8, 201114 yr 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
April 8, 201114 yr 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.
April 8, 201114 yr abit....first to....change fsb via bios asus used dip switches...around 1997-1998 lol
April 8, 201114 yr Crew 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
March 30, 201213 yr When I started overclocking..It was on.hmm..AST socket 5 or 7..Bios and CMOS were fully open to tweaking.
