[RESOLVED] What happened to the ASUS K7M??!!?

[year2000]

I was planning to build my own K7-600 MHZ custom configuration. After looking at reviews from here windrivers.com, www.slota.com (http://www.slota.com) and tom's hardware page, I deciding between 2 boards. The Asus K7M (v1.04) and the Gigabyte 7IX (I've had good luck with previous Gigabyte boards in the past). Everything looked good with these 2 boards except ASUS's K7M would make a great overclocker's board compared to the Gigabyte 7IX. But, as one final check, I went to www.amd.com (http://www.amd.com) for their list of recommended k7 boards. All I saw listed were the Gigabyte, FIC, Biostar and Microstar k7 boards for any speed of k7. There wasn't any listing of the K7M anywhere at AMD's website. Why? Is there something AMD knows about the K7M that we and the published reviews don't? Does anyone here at Windrivers.com know? It doesn't make sense that alot places on the net recommend the K7M, yet the creators of the Athalon don't even list or recommend it at their website. What do you guys/gals/techies think or say to this?

P.S. To play it safe, I think I'll go with
Gigabyte.

[Larommi]

I hate guessing but it could be a combo of things. From the fact that it does not look anything like the AMD prototype. It is easily overclockable. Asus will not admit it exists. I would not fear, it will eventually make the list. Asus will tweak it.

Too bad, I am a true ASUS fan. I love their boards.

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I always do what the voices in my head tell me!

[Shinma]

An article was written where ASUS had agreed to a certain company (we won't mention INTEL would we?) that ASUS would keep a low profile in pushing their association with AMD. AMD will more than likely test the ASUS motherboard by themselves anyways and it should meet with their approval.

[Mainly Curious]

I have contacted AMD and the ASUS K7M, wasn't availible at the time testing was going on at AMD, that's why it wasn't on the compatibility list.
I have the ASUS K7M board, it's awesome, I also installed ALL 3 Bios flashes, for compatibility beyond 750 MHz. Something to do with the fact AMD used slower cache on the Athlon 750. 300MHz v. 350-375MHz on the 700.

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