I am loading a ASUS K7M at then moment and have been unable to locate
the FSB problem you reported. Can you give some detail of the testing
method? I have been using lmbench. Any assistance would be greatly
appreciated.
  
 > We recently played with a ASUS K7M machine. It seemed to run fine. Our
 > only main complaint was that turning on ECC degraded performance severely.
 > AFAICT that slows the FSB down from 100 MHz to 66 or so. :-(

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