RaZoR schrijft dat Digital Web 3D een kleine review in elkaar heeft getikt van de Asus CUV4X gebaseerd op de VIA Apollo Pro 133Z chipset (dat wil zeggen dat-ie de Apollo PM133 compatible 694Z north bridge gebruikt ipv de oudere 694X). Verder beschikt het bordje over 5xPCI, 1xAGP, 1xAMR, 1xISA, 3xDIMM en 4xUSB. Vanuit het bios kan gekozen worden uit 32 busspeeds met als maximum 166MHz.
As with any ASUS motherboard, installation is 'a piece of cake'. The manual will help you to get through the cable connections and BIOS settings.As usual, you have two choices to set the CPU, DIP switches and the JumperFree Mode in the BIOS. If you use the DIP switches you have a choice of thirteen different FSB settings, and can go up to 150MHz. But once you switch to JumperFree mode, you get 32 FSB settings with maximum of 166MHz (66 / 68 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 / 95 / 100 / 103 / 105 / 110 / 112 / 115 / 116 / 118 / 120 / 124 / 126 / 130 / 133 / 135 / 138 / 140 / 142 / 144 / 146 / 148 / 150 / 155 / 160 / 166). I was very impressed by overclocking ability of the board. PIII 600EB was running at 150MHz FSB absolutely 100% stable.
The motherboard comes with a driver CD that has the VIA 4-in-1 driver. (version 4.20) I suggest staying away from this driver and get version 417 instead. Why? Because the board scores only 75FPS at normal settings in Q3A. Once the 4.17 driver is used, the board goes all the way up to 118FPS.
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