Hows the nForce415 for overclocking?

[dexvx]

Looking at a motherboard for Athlon XP 1600+

I want to overclock it to 166FSB (heard some motherboards arent stable at 166)

I need it to run linux, basically it has to work out of the box with no problems.

 

[crabbyman]

I dont think you would have luck with the 415 IMHO...

 

[SunnyD]

Don't bother. It's not worth the headache.

Buy either a KT333 board now, or wait for either the nForce 2 or KT400 chipsets. The current nForce boards are hit and miss on overclocking, and most boards have crappy BIOS options, and limited FSB clock selections (they give like 4MHz fixed intervals).

 

[RanDum72]

The Asus A7n266-C has decent OC' options. Although the FSB steps are like 2-3 (instead of 1) it does lock the AGP/PCI clocks to 66/33 so you should be limited only by your CPU and memory. Voltage tweaks (CPU and memory) are by jumpers only. I'm running regular Crucial PC2100 and and an XP 2100+ on a 150mhz+ something FSB (its been running there for so long I don't even remember the exact FSB )
But as with any configuration, your mileage may vary.