Hard|OCP heeft een lap tekst online gezet waarin de AOpen AX34 Pro II 'Black Beauty' word gereviewd. Naast deze stoere naam en de opvallende zwarte kleur heeft dit Socket370 bordje ook een aantal leuke features, zoals de mogelijkheid om het die hard BIOS te gebruiken en een extra grote heatsink op de chipset. Verder zijn alle dingen die een tweaker nodig heeft op dit bord te vinden: FSB tot 150MHz, VCore instellingen, Hardware Monitoring, AGP4x, UDMA 100 etc. Dit alles kan natuurlijk zonder jumpers worden ingesteld. Dat AOpen dit bord echt voor overklokkers gemaakt heeft blijkt wel uit de handleiding:
This high performance motherboard is designed for maximum 133MHz CPU bus clock. But it comes with clock generator of 150MHz when we design it to accommodate future CPU bus clock. Our lab test results shown that 150MHz is achievable when proper setting and qualified components were presented, we feel quite comfortable overclocking to 150MHz. Not only that, this motherboard has full-range (CPU core voltage) settings and an option to adjust the CPU core voltage. The CPU clock ratio can be up to 8x, that supports almost all Pentium II / Pentium III / Celeron CPUs in the future and provides flexibility for overclockers.
[...] For high frequency operation, especially overclocking, layout is the most important factor to make sure chipset and CPU working in stable condition. The layout of the motherboard implements AOpen's unique design called "Frequency Isolation Wall". Separating each critical portion of motherboard into regions where each region operates in a same or similar frequency range to avoid cross talk and frequency interference between each region's operations and condition. The trace length and route must be calculated carefully. For example, the clock trace must be equal length (not necessarily as short as possible) so that clock skew will be controlled within few a pico second.[break]Het commentaar van HardOCP daarop:[/break] I imagine that a certain percentage of you probably have no idea what that means. So let me simplify that paragraph for those of you. It pretty much means that the AX34 Pro II kicks hairy monkey ass.