ECS motherboard question.

[HikkiFan]

Does any of the ECS motherboard(socket A) that come with overclock feature?

 

[Utterman]

ECS has little if none overclocking features. It's mainly a good board for good stability. If you are looking for overclocking features, then I would look at an Epox, Asus or someother mobo.

 

[Apogeal1]

None that I know of. The 3 ECS boards that I looked at, the K7VTA3- VIA266A, K7S6A, and the K7S5A (Sis735), have firmware to detect CPU voltages. FSB and Memory can only be set to either 100 or 133MHz.

You might have a look at the Epox 8KHA+ 266a and the Soyo K7V Dragon PLUS, to mention a couple. Supposed to be an overclockers dream. The Soltek 75DRV2&4 are also good, but with those you'll have to make more manual adjustments via jumpers.

Ed

 

[tenoc]

K7S6A has SIS745 chip and jumpers for multipliers.

Sadly, it is not yet universally available. Soon, I trust.

 

[AA0]

http://www.aselabs.com/articles.php?articleid=16&page=8

There is ECS.

 

[Mitzi]

I have an ECS K7AMA I am able to alter the FSB up to 146Mhz which overclocks my Athlon 1.4 to 1.53Ghz using an older BIOS. I believe that there is an overclocking BIOS for the K75SA which also allows you to up the FSB but I don't have any more info that that.

As others have said the an ECS board is not the board to get if you are serious about overclocking.

Edit : Cool, I'm Platinum now

 

[esc]

i have the k7vta3 rev2 and it does overclock but does it badly. you can set it to 140 150 and 160mhz cpu fsb i think. my xp1700+ choked, but worked, when i set the fsb to 140.

 

[Boogak]

Dunno about the other ECS mobo's, but the K7S5A has some older beta BIOS that have extra FSB settings (138/150 and a couple more I think). The cool thing though is some of the more advanced users at ocworkbench's popular ECS forum have created an EXE that can enable the extra FSB settings in all the newer official BIOS. But if you want hardcore overclocking, I'd look to a different mobo mfg since it still doesn't allow voltage or multiplier adjustments and there's very few FSB settings to choose from.