In navolging van Anand heeft ook Tresh's FiringSquad nu een Asus K7V te pakken gekregen. En alsof dat niet genoeg moeite was, hebben ze er ook nog een review bij gemaakt. Er waren hoge verwachtingen voor dit moederbord, maar ondanks de aanwezigheid van vele bus speed settings in het bios bleek het overclocken toch niet zo goed te gaan als men had gehoopt.
The K7V comes with a wide range of features of benefit to the hardcore overclocker. For instance, the K7V supports a wide range of bus speeds in BIOS: 90, 92, 95, 97, 100, 101, 103, 105, 107, 110, 112, 115, 117, 120, 122, 124, 127, 130, 133, 136, 140, 145, 150, and 155MHz. As an added backup, the K7V comes with DIP switches which can also be used to manipulate bus speeds, although this solution doesn't support as many bus speeds as the system BIOS.
As you probably know, there isn't much headroom in the Athlons EV6 bus when it comes to overclocking. The highest setting we could achieve with our Athlon 750 and the K7V was 105MHz, and even then we were unable to complete a few benchmark tests. (CPU voltage was 1.75V) At 107MHz we were able to run a few tests in Quake 3, but this setting wasn't stable enough to complete the entire suite of tests.