OC'ing micro-ATX mobos

Szandor

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May 22, 2002
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I'm planning on building a SFF computer to use in house and for my son to use for LAN parties. I'd like to at least be able to adjust the FSB for some mild OC'ing, I don't need to be able to adjust voltages but it would be nice. Does anyone know of a good micro mobo for doing this. The Asus P4B533-VM is suppose to allow some adjustments, Gigabyte has a micro GA-8STML based on SiS645DX chipset that I thought might offer hopes but I can't find it online anywhere. Chaintech has announced one of their first nForce 2 boards will be a micro-ATX but I don't know what OC'ing it will support. Any info or suggestions would be of great help, my design will accomadate plenty of juice to power things and a ducted design to keep things cool but reasonably quiet I just need to close in on a motherboard. Thanks in advance for any help
 

CanisEstInVia

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Mar 5, 2001
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I asked this question a week ago or so. After some searching through previous threads and answers to my own, I decided to get the Asus P4S333. Someone posted having a p4 1.6a with this same mobo overclocking @ 2.4. The mobo you are looking at does not have the same memory tweakability that this one has (although I'm still new to oc'ing so someone should come in to confirm all this). I downloaded the manuals for both these mobos and the P4B533-vm does not support ddr pc2700. Although the onboard video is nice, I read that it can cause poorer video performance if you choose to use the agp (as compared to the same video card on a mobo w/o an onboard video option).

Anyways, I haven't all the components together to assemble my new comp, but if you don't purchase anytime soon, I'll be able to report back on my own overclocking of a 1.6a. Good luck with your search.

Here's a link with some of the info I got, mainly Plester's remarks link. Also here is Zap's mini setup link 2