Als we ze allemaal op papier zouden drukken hadden we de bijbel al ingehaald: weer een review van een KX133 moederbord, dit keer de Asus K7V. De Asus bleek een zeer stabiel moederbord dat bijna geen problemen gaf, en bleef ook overgeklokt stabiel:
Move over K7M, there is a new player in town. The K7V is nothing short of bedrock when it comes to system stability. I was able to run my usual Quake III demo loops for about three hours at both the default FSB as well as with the FSB cranked up to 112MHz and the memory churning away at 4:3. After raising the I/O Voltage, via jumpers, I tested this speed with mixed DIMM modules and sure enough it made no difference in this the stability of this beast of a motherboard. The K7V offers a wide variety of Front Side Bus settings: 90, 92, 95, 97, 100, 101, 103, 105, 107, 110, 112, 115, 117, 120, 122, 124, 127, 130, 133, 136, 140, 145, 150, 155MHz. The cool thing about this board is that once the FSB blows past 114MHZ the K7V adjusts the PCI bus speed down to a 1:4 ratio from 1:3, giving your PCI peripherals some much needed relief. I encountered no compatibility issues with either the SBLive or the Aureal SQ3500. The Asus K7V has won me over with it's outstanding reliability and stability, even when overclocked.
Het lijkt erop dat het nog een harde strijd wordt tussen de Abit KA7 en de Asus om de titel 'beste Athlon moederbord'.
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