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ASUS M2A-VM Motherboard Review
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Reviews Last Updated: March 26, 2007
Page: 11 of 12
$ Check REAL-TIME pricing for CybertronPC Essential PH8450 Desktop PC - AMD Phenom X3 8450 2.10GHz Triple Core Asus M2A-VM Motherboard 4GB DDR2-800 PC6400 250GB SATA2 DVDRW Flash Reader Gigabit LAN Small MT 300W NO OS $.
CompUSA: $449.99 TigerDirect: $449.99

Overclocking

ASUS M2A-VM provides some overclocking options, but no memory timings settings. Here are the options you will find on ASUS M2A-VM (0201 BIOS):

  • Base clock (HTT clock): From 200 MHz to 400 MHz in 1 MHz steps.
  • CPU voltage: Auto or from 0.800 V to 1.550 V in 0.025 V increments.
  • CPU voltage (2nd option): Auto or 100 mV.
  • Chipset voltage (“+1.2VNBSB”): Auto or from 1.2 V to 1.5 V in 0.1 V increments.
  • Memory voltage: Auto or from 1.8 V to 2.1 V in 0.1 V increments.
  • CPU multiplier.

ASUS M2A-VM (AMD 690G - RS690)
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Figure 4: ASUS M2A-VM overclocking options.

On this motherboard we could increase the CPU base clock from 200 MHz to 214 MHz, making our Athlon 64 X2 5000+ to run at 2,782 MHz, a 7% increase over its original clock of 2.6 GHz. With this overclocking Quake 3 performance increased 4.7%. With ECS GeForce6100SM-M we could configure the CPU base clock at 216 MHz and with ECS RS485M-M we could set it to 218 MHz.

We didn’t play with the voltage configurations, so with time and patience you may achieve a better overclocking with this motherboard.

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