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
| Hardware | |
|---|---|
| Processor | AMD Athlon 1200 with 133 MHz FSB |
| Memory | 128 MB with 133 MHz DDR, CL 2.5, Crucial Tech. |
| Hard Drive | IBM DTLA 307030, 30,7 GB, Ultra-DMA/100 |
| Graphics Card | Elsa Gloria III, 64 MB DDR |
| Drivers & Software | |
| DirectX version | 8.0a |
| OS | Windows 98 SE, Version 4.10.2222 A |
| Benchmarks and Settings | |
| Quake III Arena | Retail Versioncommand line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0Graphics detail set to 'Normal', 640x480x16Benchmark using 'Q3DEMO1' |
| Flask MPEG | AMD optimized version |
| ViewPerf | Version 6.1.21280x1024x16 |
| Refresh Rate | 85 Hz for all Tests, V-Sync = off |
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.