Abit for overclocking? What about this?

[otheos]

My poor old Duron 700 was running on an Abit KT7 for ages at 850 MHz.



I modified the board for higher voltage (resistor mod) and the Duron would only do 900 stable at 2.02V (previously 850 at 1.85V). So I thought the chip was a poor (150Mhz aren't good these days huh? j/k) overclocker so I popped in another Duron 800 and it went straight to 972 (108x9) at 2.02V stable as a rock but not any higher!



My new PC-Chips 810LMR came today (do all your loughing now please) for a new system I am building.



Popped on the old Duron, connected all bridges for 1.85V, set it to 7x133 and what do you now (stop loughing here), 933, rock solid at 1.85V. Hm, I thought, what about the 800 Duron? well, it does 1066 (8x133) at 1.85V stable!



Moral of the story: People around here know my dislike against Abit motherboards. While this is a one off incident, don't expect my idea about abit to change for a while ;)

[NDC]

Well, to be honest with you. Among the systems I've built and seen for overclocking, I haven't come across an AMD based motherboard other than ABIT that will overclock a T-Bird 1Ghz FSB-200 to 1.4Ghz (10.5 X 133) without raising the CPU voltage. This has proven to be the case for all the people I've built this setup for so, I know this wasn't just luck... As for my ABIT BE6-2, I was able to raise the Celeron 700Mhz to 997Mhz (10.5 X 95) without rasing the voltage at all as well... I'm not too crazy about raising the voltage to overclock a processor. ;)

Anyhow, we all have different opinions on mainboard preference. However, ABIT has indeed been treating me righteously! :D

[Hellmund]

Yeh I love abit boards, I went from a Slot 1 PCchips board to a abit BF6 and got my cel400@533mhz default voltage:D

Couldn't do a thing with the PC-chips board.....

[DanU]

My first mobo, an amptron PM8800, is still kicking after nearly 5 years of operation. I originally bought it to use with a cyrix P150+. It was later upgraded to a winchip 2 240. When that finally ran out of steam, I designed and built a new voltage regulator for it to support a K6-2 450 (75MHzx6). Now it's happily running in my mom's computer, faithfully displaying web pages and running wordperfect 2000 without the slightest complaint.

My next two boards were Abit's. Softmenu really spoils you. Of course now a days everyone has softmenu-style voltage controls.