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Mostly just testing out my new registration, necropost at it's best.
Just some modern thoughts on a now ancient board. Huge props to xbitlabs for being one of the few sites to test throughly enough to discover that the onboard SATA controller on this board is worthless if you overclock at all. On the 3 boards I've had, pretty much 201-203+ FSB and the SATA hangs at post.
It's a shame really that these boards got such a horrible rap for this SATA timing oversight. Use PATA only, or just buy any cheapo PCI SATA card for SATA and these boards overclock like crazy. Literally your only limit is how much your AGP card can tolerate out of spec. Radeon 9600np around 245+. Geforce 6600nu didn't care at all =) Using SetFSB the PATA dies somewhere around 280+fsb... not bad considering later stock BIOS's let you set 255fsb max.
You can get some limited vCore adjustment from a modded BIOS. Unfortunately one of the original sources of a good MOD bios is probably dead since Kunaak on XtremeSystems made it "download by PM only" which i'm sure is useless now. I only add this link for crediting him. http://www.xtremesystems....ms/showthread.php?t=43792
More realistically, for 80% the same just roll your own BIOS. Go to ECS's site and snag the latest (probably last) BIOS: http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECS...&MenuID=6&LanID=9
Then download MODBIN6 2.01.02 or greater from BIOSMods.com: http://www.biosmods.com/download.php
Read on how to use MODBIN6 (Award made it really well, the program has good in program help) Load it up, LOAD Bios (extract the current ECS bios to same directory) Edit Setup Screen > find Frequency/Voltage > VCC CORE Voltage
Change it from Disable to Normal. Alt-F for file, then save as whatever you want. This gives up to +.75v on Vcore now.
Of course if you really want to abuse it get out the soldering iron and volt-mod it the real way http://www.ocworkbench.co...e/755a%20mod%20guide.htm but remember anything past 280fsb and kiss your PATA data goodbye. These days nobody cares about 754, so i'm not sure why you'd do this nowdays.
I'm just posting this all now for fun. Being 2008 now I doubt anyone cares anymore, Mostly a nostalgic look of the now old days of modding a cheap mobo to overclock some serious performance.
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