User Guide

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As a leading manufacturer in motherboard industry, AOpen always listens to what customers want and develop products to fit different
user's requirements. Reliability, compatibility, leading technology and friendly features are our basic goals when designing motherboards.
Other than above mentioned design criteria, there are power users who are always seeking to push the limitation of the system
performance by overclocking which we call them "Overclocker".
This section is dedicated to overclockers.
This high performance motherboard is designed for maximum 400/533MHz CPU bus clock. But it comes with clock generator of 992MHz
(248MHz x4) when we design it to accommodate with future CPU bus clock. Not only that, the CPU clock ratio can be up to 24x that
supports almost all of Pentium
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4 CPUs in the future and provides flexibility for overclockers.
But not guaranty. ☺
☺☺
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Tip: Note that overclocking may also
cause thermal problem. Please make
sure that the cooling fan and the heatsink
were adequate to dissipate excessive
heat that's generated by overclocking the
CPU.
Warning: The design of this product follows CPU and chipset vendor's design
guideline. Any attempts to push beyond product specification are not
recommended and you are taking your own risk to damage your system or
important data. Before doing overclocking, you must make sure your
components are able to tolerate such abnormal setting, especially CPU,
DRAMs, hard disks, and AGP VGA cards.