Athlon Boosters - Three AMD 760 Boards for DDR SDRAM

Overclocking Is Taboo!

Asus A7M266's mirage: The label indicating the individual settings for the clock multiplier means absolutely nothing. The board does not permit alteration of Athlon's clock multiplier - the required switches have not been integrated into the board.

Overclocking enthusiasts who refrain from soldering-work might as well forget about using these boards. None of the tested boards offered the possibility of modifying the clock multiplier. You can only overclock the processor slightly by increasing the front-side-bus, thus also changing the memory, PCI and AGP clock.

Test Setup

To enable a comparison with conventional SDRAM memory as well, we have added the Asus A7V133 to the three candidates tested. As with the previous tests of the K133 boards, we used testing platforms with identical components. Only the processor was different - we chose a faster unit with AMD Athlon 1200.