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TweakTown has posted a review on the ASUS A7V133 Motherboard.

ASUS have had a long history of producing motherboards. In the past ASUS´s range of motherboards were known for their stability rather than overclockability but like so many other manufactures are listening to the market and have been doing motherboards that appeal to the overclockers without loosing the OEM market.

ASUS´s first dive into the AMD K7 market was the introduction of their first Slot A board called the K7M. ASUS were one of the very few manufactures that produced an AMD Irongate (AMD 750) chipset. This board won numerous awards for ingenuity and stability. ASUS provided this board with a 1 AGP, 5 PCI, 1 ISA and 1 AMR layout. Even with the problems with the AMD 750 chipset with GeForce video cards, ASUS´s K7M was one of the most stable and overclockable out of the AMD 750 range of boards.
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Reviews 52668 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

FullOn3D has posted a review on the Iwill KA266 motherboard

This is where it gets interesting. This board has full voltage (1.5-1.85V) in the BIOS and multiplier adjustments (5.0x-12.5x) on board as well as a the aforementioned front side bus selection. Having come right off of the KK266 I was in a nice deep ´overclocking stupor´ so when I first set the board up I went right for paydirt. 7.0x146Mhz at 1.85V, CAS2/FAST... booted no problem. This is with PC2100 DDR SDRAM. I can´t say if PC1600 would do this (since I have none), but just a tip, from what I am hearing, most PC1600 will do PC2100 speeds easily. So, all in all, overclocking on the KA266 isn´t the greatest, but it is MUCH better than the overclocking on any other DDR SDRAM based board. I would love to see more front side buses offered and definitely multiplier options in the BIOS, but otherwise, it looks good.
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