I played around on this system for several days off and
on, whilst letting the venerable Prime95 bang on it for a good 24+ hours
straight. Many Distributed.net RC5 keys were generated, and much playing of
Quake3Arena (with even an afternoon spent as a LAN server, which has convinced
me that my wife just CANNOT play fps games....At least she's a good target. :D).
The end result of all this playing around was absolutely nothing. Which is
exactly what we want to see :D. The board performed admirably, and remained rock
solid throughout my testing here.
While the board does boast the necessary core voltage
adjustments, and does have the ability to bump FSB speeds in 1mhz increments, it
fails to provide multiplier adjustments like the Abit KT7, Asus A7V, and the
MSI K7-Master do. Of course this board is significantly cheaper than either of
those 3 boards. Having not had the opportunity to unlock and manually change the
multipliers on the Duron 700 here, I cannot say for certain, but this should be
a good board for "rolling your own" overclock the manual way via the processor
bridges, as this board did exhibit good performance overall, and great
stability. Not a whole lot bad to say about the DFI AK74-SC. It's a good,
feature rich, and stable KT133 board, one that you should be happy with.
Pros:
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Safety Features. DIMM/PCI/AGP LED's are a nice
touch, and the CPU Fan protection could be a lifesaver one day.
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Stable. It's a solid board that I could not coax
into "bluescreen-of-death" land.
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Good memory performance. This is an area where some
basic board manufacturers miss the boat, but DFI did a good job here.
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Core voltage and FSB tweaks are included.
Cons:
Rating:
8/10
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