Overclockability of an Abit VA-10?

TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
edited February 2005 in Hardware
How good are these boards? Can I change the FSB, CPU and memory volatges, and the multiplier? Or can I only do certain things?

Any other limitations I should know about?

I'm planning to get one, install 256 MB of PC3200 and a Duron 1100 and crank it up as hard as it'll go. I already have the Duron, otherwise I'd get a better CPU.

Comments

  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited February 2005
    I used to have a VA-10 and they can't change multi's for sure, but I think I remember that they could change vcore and vdimm (don't hold me to that though). The VA-20 would probably be a little better bet because they have divisors to run 200 fsb procs, whereas the VA-10 only has divisors for 166 fsb. Of course the VA-10 will work with the duron too, but the VA-20 is a little more future-proof and would be the better buy if the price difference between it and a VA-10 isn't much.
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    They can't even change the multiplier ?!?!? Whatever happened to Abit's great overclockability reputation? Or did they only get it right with the NF-7 boards?
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited February 2005
    I guess because it's a value board. You can still run a mobile in them but you have to pinmod the multiplier or get one of those adapters that let you set the multiplier. It's not such a big handicap with regular desktop procs nowdays though, since they have hard-locked multi's anyways. Even using the default multiplier of your duron, you should be able to overclock reasonably well anyways.
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    Yeah, the 1100 Duron has an 11 multiplier, so it shouldn't be too bad.
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