Is the AB-TX5 Socket 7 motherboard any good? \ VOGONS

After checking out the stat sheet here it looks promising, has everything you need in a P1 board. Also a Tom's harware review from back in the day seemed to have nice things to say about it, including a 83mhz fsb setting that worked with their 233mmx calling it the "TX chipset OC king".

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Reply 2 of 4, by Repo Man11

Posted on 2022-03-16, 05:54

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Jan has a patched BIOS to allow that board to work with the K6-2+: http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/k6plus.htm

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Reply 3 of 4, by Nitroraptor53

Posted on 2022-03-16, 06:53

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Wow, this seems overkill now, I was planning on using this board with a K5-PR90

Reply 4 of 4, by pancakepuppy

Posted on 2022-03-16, 16:21

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Nitroraptor53 wrote on 2022-03-16, 06:53:

Wow, this seems overkill now, I was planning on using this board with a K5-PR90

It may not be a truly contemporary board for a 90MHz K5, but personally I wouldn't waste time trying to find a worse socket 5/7 board to run it in. It looks like a very convenient board given that you get both AT and ATX power connectors as well as the choice of using SIMM or DIMM.

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