Asus A7V333 Manual page 17

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ASUS A7V333
Hit me with the voltage regulators ..
(Review by MS, April 24, 2002)
BIOS
As in all current ASUS mainboards, the A7V333 features the Award Medallion BIOS interface. For most parts, the BIOS is rather
standard, multiplier settings are offered up to 14x which, of course, will only work with an unlocked CPU. What we found with the
XP2100+, though was that selection of lower multiplier values was simply ignored whereas setting of 13.5 and 14x would result in
POST failure.
With the original 1005 BIOS, we experienced all sorts of stability problems, however, the latest (1006) BIOS solved all those
problems. One new setting in the Advanced menu is the System Performance that can be set to Optimal and Turbo, with Turbo being
somewhat faster but also less stable.
The main difference to any of the previous ASUS BIOS versions is the fact that something, somewhere must have gotten a bit out of
hand. What I am referring to is the fact that the BIOS offers a ton of different settings to adjust the Input and output strobe delay
(DQS) and similar parameters as S2K and DQS driving strength. To make a long story short, the values are given in [Hex] format and
personally, I would not recommend messing around with them since there is no telling what changing the settings will really do to the
system. Quite honestly, there is also no reason at all to make these settings user-accessible unless one is fishing for eye candy.
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Configuration
SiSoft Sandra
Content Creation
WS2001, Expendable
Quake3 Arena, 3DMark
Overclocking,
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