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Just wondering if anybody has bought this mobo (mine will be here monday, ok sometime next week)and played with its very limited oc abilities. It goes to 138/138 and 150/150. I,m was going to try the 150/150 with a T-Bird 1.4 266 with a termalright SK-6 and a delta 30cfm fan. Any feedback would be helpful. Thanks
 
If you think about ECS K7S5A just forget about any tweaks. I bought it 2 days ago, checked all 6 available bios files and there is no 112, 124, 138, 150 and 166 setting. Just pure 100/100, 100/133, 133/133. Thanks a lot, ECS!!!
BTW, if anybody HAVE that mythical BIOS FOR REVIEWERS ONLY please be so kind and just send it to me. I'm deadly hungry of it!!!
 
CPUCool supports the SIS735 chipset and lets you set the FSB in smaller steppings than in the OC Bios:
66/90/100/103/107/110/112/124/133/137/138/142/146/150/160/166/200

You can download CPUCool <A HREF="http://www.tweakfiles.com/diagnostic/cpucool.html" target="_new">here.</A>

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use OVK7S5A(L).ROM from WWW.OCWORKBENCH.COM
You'll get what you want....

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Another popular forum is where I get all the versions of the Overclocking bios's. Although I tried quite a few of the bios and found that the 9-20-01 "oem version" seems the most stable for my board which is R5. I switched and started using Soft FSB because it offered much more choices then even the OC bios and because the OC bios wasn't as stable as the 9-20-01 was for my board. I also tried the oem one that came out a few days ago and couldn't get 124 with that one.

With this setup I am able to get my Duron 800 to 124/124 and everything runs smooth, but when I run Prime it will come up with an error after about 2 hours. I am running at 1.85 volts using the pencil trick on the L7's and am thinking of adding the 18k resister in order to boast my voltage a little more. 1.9 might just do it.

To be honest, I am a little dissapointed because I was expecting to get 133/133 out of this just by the way people talked before I bought it. Now I will be lucky to get the 992 Mhz.

I wish this board had multiplier switches... I would love to back it down to 7.5 and run at 133/133. At least then I would get the full bus speed instead of underclocked.

By the way, you guys all know that they are comming out with a K7S6A and that it will have multiplier, voltage and much more FSB choices right? The real question is are they going to sell this for $57.00 too? I doubt it... oh and it wont have the SDRAM slots any more. Just 3 DDR slots. Looks like we should have all waited for this board.

Although don't we all say that everytime a new board comes out?

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I was able to get 124/124 with the Duron 800 much more stable now with the latest 11-24-01 bios. Also I got my 1.4 to go to 147/147 and am still running Prime 95 to double check stability. However I am unable to get 150.

Still not bad for a $57.00 Mother Board.

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Try Leadtek 7350KDA, thier website suck, no iformation of the motherboard there.
Review <A HREF="http://www.vr-zone.com/reviews/Leadtek/7350KDA-OC/" target="_new">here</A>.
 
i dont know what you consider "real", but something that performs like this, and has very few hardware conflicts, and can be manipulated to be an overclocking board....for $60....why the hell would you not buy it?

-DAvid

-Live, Learn, then build your own computer!-
 
Check out ocworkbench.com click on the ecs link under forums. there is a member there in that forum who has developed a program that will allow you to overclock the fsb it does not actually change your bios so there is no need to flash the bios to use it.
I have not personally tried it yet but they have others who have.
 
<font color=green>Reliability.</font color=green> that’s the reason why I’m not going to recommend K7S5A anymore.
I’ve had many problems with a customer using K7S5A, so we’ll change it for a MSI KT3 Ultra just adding $25.
What is $25 extra?…. really nothing, considering all the OC capabilities of the KT3 and the reliability.

Actually, I’m currently using the KT3 as my “battle horse” for every duron/athlon system that I make.
 
Hey C,

You are so right! I too, am now using the MSI KT3 Ultra ARU, and while it does not score as high as my old Epox 8KHA+ at default, it is just so easy to do everything! The MSI Live update is the best & easiest site of all the mobo makers that I have ever used! Other mobo's may bench mark higher, but this is the BEST mobo & support that I have ever used! From now on all my mobo's will be MSI.

Peace Out..................tile

god knows your entire system setup & he would answer your questions if he could just stop laughing
 
these mobo's suck I am using one as a replacement for my epox 8k3a untill my new 8k3a arives (power supply failed and took it with it) so untill next week I have to suffer with an un overclocked xp1800 that should be running at 1.76ghz and pc3200 ddr ram that should be running at 400mhz but the damned mobo believes it to be pc 2100! I am using the version with the ali chipset which I have to admit is a hell of a lot better than its clone with the sis chipset that my brother is using. overclocking is damned near impossible and it is futil to try

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I agree, pcchips, or ECS as they now trade under have always been naf - like most things in life, you get what you pay for. I did a system @ christmas and put one of those boards in, along with the 1 gig tbird that came out of my kt7a, the performance difference was unreal (basically same spec of pc, just different board), it was like knocking 300Mhz off the cpu speed.


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