CCW
03-17-2004, 10:52 AM
Review Quote:
Since the AMD Athlon 64 CPU's came out, it seems as if Socket A was forgotten. There are a ton of factors that make the Athlon64 a great CPU, but the enthusiast cannot yet forget Socket A. Recently, DFI had released their Infinity revB motherboard for Socket A, and now overclockers are hitting 240-260 MHz FSB stable, on average. Over at XtremeSystems, there are several users over 270MHz FSB, and one person who has even hit 291MHz FSB!! Not only is that good news for DFI users, but there's some good news for Abit NF7 owners. Just recently, BIOS modder "TicTac" has fixed the 10/10.5 multiplier issue with newer BIOS' for the NF7 series. Now, users can run a high FSB speed along with a high CPU speed, thanks to that 10 and 10.5 mulitplier. At these high CPU and FSB speeds, the performance can rival the Athlon64 and Pentium 4's.
Read It Here! (http://www.techtastic.ca/reviews3/barton-2600.html)
Since the AMD Athlon 64 CPU's came out, it seems as if Socket A was forgotten. There are a ton of factors that make the Athlon64 a great CPU, but the enthusiast cannot yet forget Socket A. Recently, DFI had released their Infinity revB motherboard for Socket A, and now overclockers are hitting 240-260 MHz FSB stable, on average. Over at XtremeSystems, there are several users over 270MHz FSB, and one person who has even hit 291MHz FSB!! Not only is that good news for DFI users, but there's some good news for Abit NF7 owners. Just recently, BIOS modder "TicTac" has fixed the 10/10.5 multiplier issue with newer BIOS' for the NF7 series. Now, users can run a high FSB speed along with a high CPU speed, thanks to that 10 and 10.5 mulitplier. At these high CPU and FSB speeds, the performance can rival the Athlon64 and Pentium 4's.
Read It Here! (http://www.techtastic.ca/reviews3/barton-2600.html)