Can this mother board OC?

[Juan Sanchez]

I'm curios if the MSI K7N2GM-L can overclock. You see I got my hands on a Mini-ATX tower with a 300watt PSU, 56X CD-ROM, 16X10X40 CD-RW, 20 GB HDD. And I want to get some use outa it. That MoBo is $95 and I'm gonna get a Duron 1.6 Ghz for it ($42) as well as a stick of Crucial 512 MB PC2700 ($86). All I need it to do is be able to have the FSB up to 333 as opposed to the stock 266. That way I can get the Duron to 2 Ghz.

Here's the board in question

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...ion=13-130-433

I'm also considering this chaintech

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...ion=13-152-020

I plan to use the Onboard video at first and later get a 9600np as soon as they dip below $100.

[Darthgary]

MSI is great for overclocking from my experients, I am pretty sure with some cooling you can get that Duron to 2 GHz with it, I would not even consider the chaintech but thats me.

MSI Rulezz...

[beppodmime]

The MSI board is rated for up to 166MHz FSB. So yes, doing that with your Duron is possible. Whether or not the BIOS has anything for FSB adjustments beyond that, I'm not sure. I imagine that since it is based on the nForce2 chipset, you could probably get more than that out of it, if you buy good memory.

The MSI board looks pretty good. And the onboard video is definately a good bang for the buck with these boards.

[Scott Przybylski]

I have that MSI board, the FSB only seems to goto 200mhz for me, would be nice if I could get it to go higher.



Scott