Whatever happened to aOpen mobos?

[Nubile Nikki]

When I last purchased a PC 6 years ago I went with an aOpen mobo (AX3SP Pro). They were highly regarded at the time. In fact my PC performed admirably with it's P!!! 1.0 GHz CPU and outperformed many of my friends more powerful PCs.
Last month I had to upgrade it since I am now processing large batch files of RAW digital images. I see aOpen doesn't seem to be on the mobo landscape anymore.
What happened? Did they churn out a few bad mobos and kill their reputation?

Now that I have a new Badaxe2 rig I want to learn about overclocking. I'd like to play around with the old PC first (in case I fry the thing - I am so impatient and wreckless at times...wink)....any good resources out there on whether the AX3SP Pro is oc'able and how to do it?

 

[The Borg]

On an old machine like that, the only way you will be able to OC the PC is changing dip switchs on the motherboard.

There should be two sets of dip switches. One for the multiplier and one for the FSB frequesncy. There should also be two tables printed on the board showing the combination of dip switch settings and what the setting is. Nothing in the BIOS.

Don't bother with the multiplier. Changing that will only make the machine not boot.

Depending on the machine, the frequency setting will either be set at 66 MHz or 133 MHz (maybe 100 MHz). Try bumping this up slowly until the machine stops booting, then back off one.

I have a Celleron 933 that I have managed to get up to over 1.26 GHz. About 36% OC. However, I have found that about 15% is good.