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Bottom line is that while ABIT had done a great job on the NF7-S, I still can't help but feel a bit disappointed with it from an enthusiast's point of view. The last time I looked, ABIT was supposed to be building kick ass OCer boards, and while the NF7-S has merit on its own; the competition makes it look lax. There is no doubt that more engineering resources could have been put into the ABIT NF7-S to make it "all that and a bag of chips", but sadly this just did not happen. If a 180MHz FSB and 360MHz DDR bus suits your fancy, the ABIT NF7-S has your name on it.[/quote]
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Shown above is our max stable FSB OC at 184MHz. Be advised that this very system (different mainboard obviously) has run a stable at 200MHz+ FSB. With our first BIOS that was delivered with the board, we could only secure a 168MHz FSB overclock. With the flashing of a new beta BIOS, we could instantly use the same settings and reach a 184MHz rate.
Bottom line is that while ABIT had done a great job on the NF7-S, I still can't help but feel a bit disappointed with it from an enthusiast's point of view. The last time I looked, ABIT was supposed to be building kick ass OCer boards, and while the NF7-S has merit on its own; the competition makes it look lax. There is no doubt that more engineering resources could have been put into the ABIT NF7-S to make it "all that and a bag of chips", but sadly this just did not happen. If a 180MHz FSB and 360MHz DDR bus suits your fancy, the ABIT NF7-S has your name on it.[/quote]
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