Chuck,
Regarding the power issues: I think too much is being made out of this issue. Many
folks do not seem to take into account that these boards were put together to test
K7 upto 700 MHz. I am not a power supply guy but I would think that something
designed for 700MHz would have plenty of margin at 550 at 600.
Sounds like the Firing Squad doesn't think the power issue is trivial. I personally think it's amazing AMD let that kludge get out of their labs for all the world to see. They should have had a real, production quality power supply, in a case, made by Delta, or ACDC, or Lambda, or Ceag, or any of several other quality power supply vendors, in that picture. Hey, even if it is a trivial thing, which it isn't, that picture sure won't give a warm, fuzzy feeling to potential customers' engineering folks that realize that good power design is of utmost importance.
From various sources, we've heard that AMD is having
a hell of a time supplying clean power to the K7, as is
evident by the huge silver heatsink behind the slot.
Tony |
