| Processor | CX M1/AM K5/AM K6/Pentium |
| Processor Speed | 75-200MHz |
| Chip Set | Intel430TX |
| Maximum Onboard Memory | 128MB(EDO/SDRAM Supported) |
| Video Chip Set | None |
| Cache | 256KB |
| BIOS | Award |
| Dimensions | MiniAT |
| I/O Options | 32-bit PCI slots (3), PCI/AMR slot (1), 16-bit ISA slots (3), floppy drive interface, IDE interfaces (2), parallel port, PS/2 mouse port, serial ports (2), USB connector |
| NPU Options | None |
The chipset on this mainboard is i430TX, known as "the Intel's last chipset for Socket7" .
I have a emotional sympathy for "Anti-Intel company", so I hoped for the future of "Super7 chipset", like VIA-MVP3 and ALi-AladdinIV/V...because it has compatibility for Socket7, different from the Intel 440BX(which applies Pentium2 that have curious I/F like SECC1....).
But after all, I get KK266 which is a "AMD socketA platform", next to this mainboard and I have no knowledge for Pentium2-3, Celeron(socket370), AMD K6-2/3, or Cyrix 6x86/MII....because I used this TX97-E for a long time. This ran very stable.
But....I had some problems when I got it.
This mainboard supported bus-master IDE at the first time, but Windows95 had no native drivers for it. So it needed to install Intel's bus-master IDE driver. But once I mistook the order of "uninstalling the standard IDE driver" and "installing bus-master IDE driver", the "device manager" indicated "!" marks. I didn't know how many times I did it again on safe mode.....
But the problem was solved with Windows98, and I used it for over 4 years with P55C-166MHz given from "the chief of smelled-dishes comittee", and after I got KK266, This mainboard worked over 3years as a web server (although the onboard L2-caches of TX430 enables only less than the area of 64MB....). I really missed this stable mainboard.
TX-97 series had some variations. There were TX97(AT,SIMM)/97-E(AT,SIMM/DIMM),97-X(ATX,SIMM)/97-XE(ATX,SIMM/DIMM). I imagine how the today's enviroment goes if I encouraged to change AT platform for ATX. I think the life of this mainboard get shorter.
And now....The web server runs with AladdinV mainboard and CyrixMII-300GP/233MHz, "The mustang of socket7CPU"....