"Peter Ziege" <peter-ziege.RemoveThis@web.de> wrote in message news:<cdk42e$84$1@ngspool-d02.news.aol.com>...
> Please help me, whats the difference between the Boards 8KTA3+ and
> 8KTA3+PRO.
> Thanks
8KTA3 is a non-RAID board. 8KTA3+ is a RAID board.
8KTA3PRO is a non-RAID board (I have one). 8KTA3+PRO is a RAID board.
Both the "PROs" were more overclocking friendly boards. The most
notable difference is that the PROs have jumpers that allow voltage
tweaking (sort of like a factory voltage mod). In addition to being
able to set VCore to 1.85 volt in BIOS Setup you can also
incrementally increase the voltage an additional +0.1v, +0.2v, +0.3v,
or +0.4v. These options allow a maximum VCore of 2.25 volts which I
believe was the highest for any production Socket A motherboard.
Other overclocking friendly features of the PRO boards are BIOS
selectable multipliers, bus speed in 1 mhz increments (theoretically
up to 180 Mhz but in practice the VIA KT133A's northbridge was good to
150 to 160 Mhz), AGP voltage tweaking from 1.5 v (standard) to 2.0
volt in 0.05v increments, I/O voltage tweaking (chipset, SDRAM, etc)
from 3.4v (3.3v is standard) to 3.9V in 0.05V increments.
I never owned an 8KTA3 nor an 8KTA3+ so I don't know which of the
above features they had or lacked, except I know they couldn't set max
VCore to 2.25 volts.
Steve Sheppard<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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