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AthlonMB has posted a review of the latest and greatest Socket A motherboard from Asus, the A7V. Here´s a snip:

With all this goodness, there is still more that has created this shroud of excitement for the A7V, frequency multiple settings. Many websites have reported that Asus, in the eleventh hour, decided to remove this option to further prevent overclocking of AMD processors. Frequency Multiple settings are not available here because AMD Athlon processors have locked Frequency Multipliers. According to Asus, they will soon be releasing an A7V WITH said options to provide overclocking. And yes, the A7V will allow the change of the processor voltage as well as the adjustment of the processor multiplier! The first will be possible with jumpers, the latter will be achieved with dipswitches. Even if your one of those lucky (unlucky), souls who opted to be the first with the A7V, I have found that by simply increasing the front side bus, you should be able to squeeze at least another 100MHz out of your processor.
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