Best mATX Board for Overclock?

[ProwLerX]

I Currently have an Abit NV7m but I can't Overclock. I'm looking for a good board that has great overclockablity, but it needs to be MicroATX. Any Ideas? I was thinking about the Epox 8khm...

 

[gaidin123]

Welcome to the AT forums!

In general you are going to have a hard time finding a board that is both micro-ATX and very overclockable. Unfortunately the userbases of those two market segments seem to overlap very little.

This thread mentioned a few of the decent mATX motherboards out there. Also, if you do a search for 8khm there are a couple threads around about it. People seem to know very little about the board and there's definitely some confusion as to the stated specs on Epox's website versus reality in terms of the onboard audio and even chipset!

I don't know of any highly overclockable mATX SocketA motherboards using the KT266A or higher chipset. I have a soltek microATX KT133A board that has jumpers for the CPU multiplier as well as FSB and it overclocks pretty well but you're better off finding a KT266A or other (Sis maybe?) solution. Chaintech may have something but they are rather hard to get a hold of if you're in the US.

Good luck and lets us know if you find anything worthwhile!