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I'm looking to make the 1.8A-to-2.4GHz overclock in a very up-to-date board. The i850E (533FSB) boards don't include the ICH4 southbridge chipset except the fluke from Gigabyte. I'm not interested in Gigabyte's board because of all the extra baggage... Promise ATA133 RAID + Custom ATA BIOS (Crap. XP can do software RAID), Dual BIOS (What's the point?), Realtek LAN (It'll be redundant with my 3Com/Intel cards), NEC USB2.0 chip (Redundant with the ICH4. I don't need that many USB2 root ports!) and integrated Creative sound (WHY?!)....
I know not all regular i850 boards can do 533 because of other components (Clock generator crystals on some of the Asus ones for example), and I don't want to "get lucky" or have to mod a board when I could have just bought a different one. What other options are there for 533 + ICH4? Thnx!
I know not all regular i850 boards can do 533 because of other components (Clock generator crystals on some of the Asus ones for example), and I don't want to "get lucky" or have to mod a board when I could have just bought a different one. What other options are there for 533 + ICH4? Thnx!