DFI AK74SC Motherboard Review

The mainboard touts several safety enhancing features which are significant..

Here's a picture of the locations of these lights, with annotations, as my camera didn't show them well.

The BIOS is your standard Award fare, with all the familiar Award tweaks. You can set the memory to run at 100 or 133mhz. The BIOS does have FSB tweaks in 1mhz increments, as well as vcore adjustments. Unlike the Abit KT7, Asus A7V, or the MSI K7-Master (which are the crème-de-la-crème of KT133 overclocking boards) there are no multiplier adjustments available, which means it's X-Acto knife and pencil-time if you plan on overclocking, as the majority of Athlon boards just aren't amenable to FSB overclocking. The Duron I used to test the board unfortunately is not mine, and I prefer not to go hacking and penciling other peoples processors, so no overclocking was possible via that method here.

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