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Date Posted: 15:17:09 01/09/02 Wed
Author: John Stocker
Subject: 6500/6400 motherboard musings

I've always assumed that the 6500 board was the wiser choice. It's faster, is more tolerant of your 3.3v regulator, has faster memory, and has better graphics.

But lately I've been reconsidering this, for several reasons.

1) I have a working, stable 3.3v regulator, so that's not an issue

2) the 6500's 128mb memory limit is very taxing. The 6400 has more build in memory, thus has a slightly better limit of 136mb. In this case, every little bit helps.

3) the 6500's graphics may be better, but it comes at a price. What few people know is that the 6400 can accept a THREE pci slot riser card. The 6500 cannot, because the ATI graphics occupy one of the 3 PCI IDs. Hypothetically, you can put a 3 PCI slot riser card in a 6400, occupy one of the slots with a radeon pci, and still have expansion equal to the 6500 - with light speed graphics and dual monitor support through the old connector.

4) overclocking a 6400's memory bus erases the 6500's advantage of faster memory, and it allows the use of 500MHz G3 upgrades at their full rated speed.


Given this, I'm entertaining the idea of digging up my old 5400 board, slapping on a 3 slot riser card, a radeon PCI, overclocking the memory to 50MHz, and transferring the rest of the goodies off my existing 6500 board (memory, G3 upgrade, ethernet, etc).

How will I fit a 3-slot PCI riser in the CC? I'm going to use a PCI extender to re-locate the pci cards higher in the case (in some of the room provided by my use of an LCD). Go to http://www.adexelec.com/pci32.htm and take a look at "PCI-FLEX-04". Oh, the possibilities...

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