scottk
12-05-2002, 07:57 AM
nForce2 review of 6 boards (http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=1759)
PCI lock on the ASUS
"The A7N8X BIOS definitely does contain an AGP bus lock at 66MHz. However, what about the PCI bus lock at 33MHz? For this question we headed over to ASUS and asked them what was going on. ASUS's response was simply that they have a PCI bus lock set at 33MHz and that you have nothing to worry about as far as running your devices out of specification while performing FSB overclocking."
PCI lock on the ABIT
"We asked ABIT why the AGP lock was included in the NF7-S BIOS but not the PCI lock, and we were basically told that the only reason you don't see a PCI lock in the BIOS is because ABIT doesn't want users fooling around with PCI frequency, especially since it offers virtually no performance gain. We don't have any way of independently verifying ABIT's PCI lock claim ourselves, so take this piece of information as you will."
PCI lock on the EPOX?
"As far as we can tell, the Epox 8RDA+ contains just an AGP lock, but no visible PCI lock. We've haven't been able to get confirmation from Epox as to whether this board locks the PCI bus at 33MHz or not, but we'll update this section as soon as we hear back from Epox."
PCI lock on the ASUS
"The A7N8X BIOS definitely does contain an AGP bus lock at 66MHz. However, what about the PCI bus lock at 33MHz? For this question we headed over to ASUS and asked them what was going on. ASUS's response was simply that they have a PCI bus lock set at 33MHz and that you have nothing to worry about as far as running your devices out of specification while performing FSB overclocking."
PCI lock on the ABIT
"We asked ABIT why the AGP lock was included in the NF7-S BIOS but not the PCI lock, and we were basically told that the only reason you don't see a PCI lock in the BIOS is because ABIT doesn't want users fooling around with PCI frequency, especially since it offers virtually no performance gain. We don't have any way of independently verifying ABIT's PCI lock claim ourselves, so take this piece of information as you will."
PCI lock on the EPOX?
"As far as we can tell, the Epox 8RDA+ contains just an AGP lock, but no visible PCI lock. We've haven't been able to get confirmation from Epox as to whether this board locks the PCI bus at 33MHz or not, but we'll update this section as soon as we hear back from Epox."