K7V Revisited!
I'm writing this a week or so after my original K7V review. A couple of people, notably Tom Leufkens, contacted me to point out on Bunny's Workshop in Japan, that there are some undocumented switch settings for the K7V which may allow higher FSB's to be run stably. This of course aroused my interest so I decided to check it out. If you remember, in my original review I couldn't get higher than 107FSB to work.

I first tested the board with the Athlon 550 I've got on loan from Eyo. With this CPU I was able to run at 124MHz FSB for a core speed of 682MHz. This is a very decent non-GFD Athlon overclock. My goal of course was to get 133MHz FSB working, so that the full speed of the memory could be exploited and the PCI would be running at it's maximum rated speed of 33MHz and not underclocked. 133MHz FSB, or 266 DDR, is also significant because future Athlons are supposed to be shipped at this speed. It's unclear at this point whether AMD will make a SlotA version available (as opposed to the new SocketA format) or if there will be a slocket-type adapter available. Also, I now have an Athlon 750 with a core that I know is good for 1GHz. My ultimate goal would be to get 133x7.5 for