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need Socket A board to overclock - few left - what's good?

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megalomando

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Hi,

I've been trying to get a system together for a gift. Am giving away my NF7 to Mom as she has my old Abit BH-6 at a raging 333Mhz and it's painfully slow.

Was transferring faster & better parts to my DFI NFII Infinity & killed it last night. I made a change in the bios to reflect the faster ram & the board is dead, won't boot, southbridge gets warm but northbridge does not nor does the processor. I did the usual clear CMOS routine to no avail.

I put the processor, ram & video card in the NF7 and everything ran beautifully so it's a problem with the motherboard.

Finally I removed plug, battery, left the clear cmos jumper in the on position, removed the bios and went to bed.

After reassembly it's still dead as a doornail this morning.

I have two XP2600 mobile processors & one XP2500 (Mom's getting the XP2400) and want to overclock the mobiles but looking around I see 64 bit everything & few Socket A motherboards available.

So if anyone knows of a quality Socket 462 (Socket A) motherboard still being sold that is not only excellent for overclocking (multipliers, Nice VCore & VDimm options) but will leave the PCI Bus at 33 Mhz & not mess with the hard drive bus speed, Please let me know.

Thanks.
 
Hi,

Ya, I've been looking there.

Thanks for the link to the Epox. I'd looked at that one but I'm wary because of all the boot problems I see mentioned there. Did a google and it seems to be a problem.
 
There is an outfit still selling the NF7-S. (EDIT: Found a few more, via Pricewatch, so this isn't the only source, after all.) Never heard of 'em, but it's the pre-400 FSB one, which won't be a problem for any of the cpu's you mentioned:

http://www.spartantech.com/product.asp?PID=ABNF7-S&m1=pg

The two most highly reputed MB's to OC for AMD XP's were both what you have already had, but new LanParty NF2's are pretty much all sold out by now.


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