[Zardon]

"TicTac, a fellow Overclocker with too much spare time, investigated and came up with a new Bios for all of us with an Abit NF7-S motherboard (Rev 2.0) that fixes the long standing issue, where people with an unlocked barton CPU could not use all available multipliers to Overclock their CPU's to get that last FSB out of their system.

Words from the man himself

It has been a year when this board was 1st release
and the culprit in the latest bios D11-D22 is on the multiplier issue
Some still loyal to this board some just left it n go for another alternative board.
And I have been using this mobo from September to December 2003...
I love this board n doing something impossible for Bios Modder and its end up here..
WE DID IT!."

head over here to snag it

[Judas]

great... although i don't have a nf7-s.... Zardon... you try it out? anyone else?.... like to know...

[Zardon]

actually I didnt try it out, because I am not having any problems with the new NF7s ive gotten, and I dont want to take a change of cocking it up

[Judas]

Originally posted by Zardon
actually I didnt try it out, because I am not having any problems with the new NF7s ive gotten, and I dont want to take a change of cocking it up

...that'd make sence....

still.. was worth asking..

[DarkFoss]

Thanks for the heads up Z
I took the plunge.
With this bios I'm able to boot into windows at 230x10.5 1.9v on vcore. I never was able to do that before always got the unworkable cpu error. Wasn't stable though, would probably have to up it to 2v haven't played too much yet. 1 thing bothers me with this bios however benching the memory with Sandra 04 I've lost 270 points on the int and 180 on the float.. I've always taken the scores with a grain of salt but I do take notice of the bandwidth effeciency. A clean 6% drop from 94% to 88% int and from 89% to 83% float.. reinstalling the memory controller drivers haven't fixed it.. Not even upgrading from the 3.13's to Mwarhead's latest remix.. Not sure I'm going to accept this kind of trade off in performance yet.

<edit>I flashed from Tictac's 22 alpha to the d22a1bk beta king with the 4.2.47 sata bios. Mem scores are back to normal. Have had no problem booting to windows at 225, 230 and 231fsb with both 10.5 and 10 multi's. Stability's another issue, an issue with my hardware rather than a reflection on Tictac's bios. I'm not going to try any higher until after I ghost my system...been awhile at my useual setting things are running quite smoothly. I'm going to continue to use this bios.