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Just got my NF7-S 2.0 and iam going to set it standard speed and see
if i realy need to overclock, i know i will just can't resist
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 13:11:47 -0400, "RavingRaichu"
<raichu33@comcast.net> wrote:
>"John" <jmort@despammed.com> wrote in message
>news:cd817j$r0p$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk...
>> Is the Abit NF7 still a good choice for overclocking flexibility or is it
>> superseded now ?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>Yeah, it's a good board for that.
>You can get the Asus A7N8X-X A7N8X-VM & "A7N8X"
> For cheaper though.
>If you want to spend the $ for one, you could get the A7N8X-E Deluxe.
>I have a "A7N8X" with a 2200+ it overclocks well, in till I go over what my
>PSU can do.
> The last time I can remember, and when sandra was able to do an ok report
>on it
> when I overclock by just so much, the cpu watts go over 130
>so that's like, 20 + 20 Hd/cd
>and @ least another 100 for the board, after all, I am overclocking.
> This makes me about 20Watts short with the wimpy little 350Watt I have
> now.
>plus about 5 for each fan.
>two case fans, and a Xeon wind tunnel.
>that's about 15 or 20 watts.
> I guess I should go out & get a better PSU one of these days
> cause the psu is the one, and only thing holding me back from a better
>overclock.
> Like running close to a 2800+ is not really enough.
>
>
>Features include.
>Locked agp + pci This can also be set to auto, but I suggest setting them
> to 66/33 standard.
>In some cases, you can change the multiplier.
> Mine can be changed, but only to 14 from 13.5
>I find setting a lower multi. & a higher fsb gets me better
> performance.
>Ram auto with cpu~fsb, seems to be the best setting.
>you can change ram timings if the ram can take it.
>MB's I had a bad AMD Gigabyte MB
> I thought it was my fault, but the company said to the computer shop
> that I could've almost burned chips off the board, and it still wouldn't
> have been messed up the way it was,. "Bad Bios Chip."
>My next Gigabyte board will be a dual bios board.
>
>Of which, there may be an option for you there too.
> "GA-7VT600 1394" with Dual bios. or GA-7VAXP
> Darn it, newegg don't have any new ones.
>
Shopping for a new MB is work in it's self. (-:
> There's too many out on the market.
>Denny. Huh? Oops,,
>RavingRaichu.
>
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