Asus A7V333 Manual page 8

The ATX I/O connector block is non-standard and leaves out the Game Port in favor of an additional USB 2.0 dual port which is
certainly more useful than the legacy interface.
In terms of additional hardware, the A7V333 ships with an extra dual port USB 2.0 bracket, which further sports the game port
missing in the I/O panel. Moreover, ASUS includes an IEEE 1394 connector bracket, certainly a much appreciated novelty in the
mainboard world.
The manual is typical ASUS quality, well organized and to the point, even though the checklist did not (for the first time with ASUS)
match the shipping contents in that the firewire module is not listed at all and the second 80 wire ribbon cable was listed as 40 ribbon
cable. Interestingly, the IEEE 1394 module is not mentioned with a single word in the manual at all. One sheet (2 pages) with last
minute additions / errata addresses the lack of STR support in Jumper Enable mode and a few other small errors.
We still found some interesting statements in the manual as for example: Overclocking the processor is not recommended. It may
result in a slower speed.
In the BIOS section, the manual falls short with some of the new settings for DDR control which are all thrown into the same pot
labeled Useful Test Parameters and show the options in Hex code values from 0 to F. We won't hold this against ASUS, though, for
the user it is best to leave those settings at Auto.
Quality
We have said it before and we can only repeat it here again, so far, we have yet to find an issue with quality on any ASUS board that
has gone through here. One of our criteria has always been the on-board power circuitry and the rule of thumb is that the more
phases we have, the cleaner is the power and the faster the switching as we documented in numerous earlier reviews. However,
there are also design differences that come into play, in that most standard power regulation circuits are organized into three
separate levels, that is, the main controller signaling to the driver chips which, in turn, drive the switch voltage regulators or
MOSFETs. So much for the standard layout used by Intersil and SemTech. With three phases, this is a great concept and suffices for
most CPUs. However, the intrinsic limitations of the design is the above described separation into three operational and physical