Anybody OC an ASUS A7M266?

[AMDPwred]

I hear you can't change the multiplier on this board so I'm wondering how people are OCing this board with just using the fsb. Thanks for any replies!

 

[AMDPwred]

Bump

 

[Rand]

I don't own one personally but from my experience it's a very nice board for FSB overclocking.

 

[frankroh]

I OC'ed my 1.33 266MHz to 1.4GHz while running the FSB at 140MHz. Just bumped it up in the BIOS. Took all of 2 minutes. Now for the problem of not being able to adjust the multiplier,there is a way to do it albeit a long process. Asus prefabricated the IC board with a footprint for the 5-dip dipswitch. By soldering on the 5-set dipswitch and two resistors, you can control the CPU multiplier.

Asus has done this with some of their other mobos: It satisfies AMD's efforts to prevent people from OC'ing but allows true geeks full control of OC-ability of their mobos. I've been told an step by step instructions can be found on the web...

 

[Zipperhead]

i did the mod,i now run my 1.2@1550=10x155

 

[Bingo13]

Depending upon the bios and video card I have used I reached 155fsb with a 1.33 without any stability issues. With the released 1004 bios, a GF3, and some memory tweaking I am able to run 145 without issues. I will go to 150 now for certain games when needed. Without the GF3 there are no issues running at 150 with this board.

 

[AMDPwred]

What's the standard multiplier on an AMD 1.2ghz chip?

 

[chainbolt]

read the review below, and you know how far you can oc this board. it's still one of the best AMD 760 boards around.

 

[jamesbond007]

AMDPwred,

The standard multiplier of the 1.2Ghz chip would depend if it is a 200Mhz bus or 266Mhz bus nativly. If it is a 200Mhz FSB version, then the multiplier is defaulted to 12 (12x100). If the CPU is set to run for 266Mhz bus, then the multiplier would be 9 (9x133).

 

[Mike5]

Chainbot, I read your great article that you linked and the dipswitch mod. Can I ask a really dumb question? I have one of these boards on order with a 1.4 athlon, but where do you get the right dipswitch? It sounds like you are adding it after they removed it.

Thanks