ASRock K7S8XE versus Soltek 75FRN2L ("Golden Flame")
Overclocking and stability
Repeating it again that ASRock K7S8XE is a value motherboard and one simply can't impose any special overclocking requirements upon it. As for the stability requirements, they are very strict for any motherboard. At that, the motherboard didn't have anything to complain about. During the whole testing period the board was running stably and without failures.
It uses a 2-phase power scheme with four 3300 mkF plus four 1500 mkF capacitors installed.
But at overclocking race, ASRock K7S8XE is among outsiders: these functions are simply missing.
Of the related functions, there is only FSB speed variation. The variation range is between 100 and 248 MHz in 1 MHz increment.
The way the speed values are selected is awkward - to set a needed value, you have to scroll through all the interim values (another similarity to Asus motherboards).
As for other functions, they are simply missing. As a result, I was unable to test the system operation capacity at the 200 MHz bus. The thing is my Barton XP2500+ processor is able running at 200(400DDR) MHz, but either with the reduced multiplier or with the Vcore voltage increased. However, the listed functions are not implemented on out tested board.
The conclusion: the overclocking success for ASRock K7S8XE depends entirely on a particular processor specimen.
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