For BIOS tweakers, Asus gives you a ton of memory tweaks to fiddle around with. First there are a whole host of memory dividers; from 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 5:3 and 2:1. On VIA based systems there's typically a bank interleaving setting, and this time there's also Node interleaving.

There are a ton of memory tweaks, more than I've ever seen on any other motherboard. For our tests, I only set the usual ones like CAS Latency, RAS to CAS, RAS Precharge, etc.

Here you can set HyperTransport Frequency from 1000 MHz all the way down to 200 MHz. You can change the data width from 16 bits to 8 bits if necessary too.

Finally in the System Frequency/Voltage options you can let the Asus A8V overclock itself, or you can set it manually. The motherboard clock speed is adjustable from 200 MHz to 300 MHz, in 1 MHz increments.

cause the Athlon64 3800+ processor is multiplier limited, the BIOS only allows you to select lower multipliers from 4-12x range. The maximum DDR voltage is 2.8V, AGP voltage 1.6V and V-Link 2.6V.

PCStats Test System Specs:

processor: amd athlon64 3800+ clock speed: 12 x 200 mhz = 2.4 ghz 11 x 220 mhz = 2.42 ghz motherboards: gigabyte k8nsnxp-939 (nf3-250gb) asus a8v (k8t800 pro) videocard: ati radeon 9800xt memory: 2x 512mb corsair twinx 3200 xl hard drive : 40gb western digital special ed cdrom: nec 52x cd-rom powersupply: vantec 400b ion software setup windowsxp build 2600 via 4in1 4.51 forceware 4.34 catalyst 4.6 workstation benchmarks sysmark 2004 business winstone 2002 content creation 2002 super pi sisoft sandra 2004 pcmark2002 pcmark04 3dmark2001se aquamark3 comanche 4 x2: the threat ut2003