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First post, by arncht

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hi,

what is the reason to put 60mhz 430fx chip to a socket7 board? i found just an image on the net, and it is weird. the board officially supports upto 166/66 pentium.

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Reply 1 of 1, by dionb

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Good question. I'd expect the -60 would have been cheaper than the -66 so some bottom feeder might have bought them up, but this is Asus, so about as premium as motherboards could get in those days.

It's even weirder looking at date codes - I can't make out any on the chipset, but can see one on the RTC: 9607. The keyboard controller is even newer: 9617. Same for the UMC I/O chip. That makes this board a very late i430FX board, a few months past the launch of the i430VX and HX chipsets. Yet it's built like a very early FX board, with asynch cache and a COAST slot - and that -60 chipset. Odd.