No need to hurry, nothing changed, the features are all pretty much the same as in version 4. The performance as well, the board is still limited by a lack of lock on video and PCI and though the BIOS has high FSB choice, that cannot be achieved. 240 or about is still the limit, benchmarks are not improved. Hard to see the reason for the upgrade, Asus does not list any either.
The bios still undervolts, just like version 4 so the maximum CPU voltage of 1.75 is more like 1.72. Version 3 overvolts but has no sensible choices anyway beside default and 1.70 (actual 1.73-4). The maximum VDimm is only a meager 2.8V. Watch out overclocking because lack of lock will cause Windows corruption easily. Make hard images before you embark on that else you will be reistalling often.
What amazes me is that 3 years after sitting on the same problem VIA engineers still don't know how to lock PCI/AGP and because of that they keep on handing out the enthusiasts overclocking market to NVidia on a plate.
Apparently Shuttle AN50R is the current choice for overclocking A64.
The bios still undervolts, just like version 4 so the maximum CPU voltage of 1.75 is more like 1.72. Version 3 overvolts but has no sensible choices anyway beside default and 1.70 (actual 1.73-4). The maximum VDimm is only a meager 2.8V. Watch out overclocking because lack of lock will cause Windows corruption easily. Make hard images before you embark on that else you will be reistalling often.
What amazes me is that 3 years after sitting on the same problem VIA engineers still don't know how to lock PCI/AGP and because of that they keep on handing out the enthusiasts overclocking market to NVidia on a plate.
Apparently Shuttle AN50R is the current choice for overclocking A64.
