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Review: AMD 690G motherboard showdown - ASUS v Sapphire

by James Thorburn on 1 August 2007, 16:25

Tags: ASUSTeK (TPE:2357), AMD (NYSE:AMD), Sapphire

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ASUS M2A-VM HDMI - BIOS


mATX boards tend to suffer a little on the overclocking-front compared to their full-sized siblings. Space limitations mean that trace-routing has to be optimised for size rather than ultimate clock-scaling ability and this is reflected by the BIOS's limited range of overclocking options.

Feature Adjustments
HT reference clock (CPU-SPP) 200-400MHz (1MHz increments)
CPU FID x5-CPU max. FID (x1 increments)
PEG clock N/A (no option in BIOS)
HT multiplier (CPU-SPP) 1-5x (x1 increments)
Memory clock 400/533/667/800MHz
CPU core voltage 0.800-1.550V (0.025V increments)
CPU core voltage offset +100mV/disabled
Memory VDIMM 1.800-2.100V (0.1V increments)
NB voltage N/A (no option in BIOS)
+1.2VNBSB 1.20-1.50V

BIOS images







Summary

The ASUS M2A-VM HDMI's BIOS covers the important options and gives a small amount of overclocking leeway but lacks the range of settings found, for example, on the company's M2N32-SLI Premium Vista board.