ECS K7VZM KT133 Motherboard

Overclockability

Sadly the K7VZM is not at all stable when overclocked. Going anywhere beyond the 100MHz mark renders the board practically useless. In fact in most cases it didn’t even boot up. By this we can come to one conclusion; the K7VZM was by no means designed for overclockers. As I mentioned at the start, this board is mainly aimed at users with very limited requirements. That is for people who need a very basic machine. Poor Overclockability does not mean that this board is useless. For an average user this is a good board indeed, however it does not go beyond this aspect.

Well that about covers everything to be said about this board. So now comes interesting part. Yeah the benchmarks!!!

The Test Setup

System 1:

Processor	AMD Athlon ThunderBird 1Ghz
Motherboard	ECS K7VZM
Memory	128MB PC 133 Mushkin High-performance SDRAM- CAS 2
DirectX	7.0a
Video Card	nVidia GeForce 2 MX
Sound Card	Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live!
Hard Drive	Western Digital Caviar 20GB Hard Drive
Operating System	Windows 98 SE

 

System 2

Processor	AMD Athlon ThunderBird 1Ghz
Motherboard	Asus A7V (KT133)
Memory	128MB PC 133 Mushkin High-performance SDRAM- CAS 2
DirectX	7.0a
Video Card	nVidia GeForce 2 MX
Sound Card	Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live!
Hard Drive	IBM 75GXP 30GB Hard Drive
Operating System	Windows 98 SE

 

System 3

Processor	Intel Pentium III 1GHz
Motherboard	Asus CUSL2 815e (815+ICH2)
Memory	128MB PC 133 Mushkin High-performance SDRAM- CAS 2
DirectX	7.0a
Video Card	nVidia GeForce 2 MX
Sound Card	Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live!
Hard Drive	DiamondMax Plus 45 GB Hard Drive
Operating System	Windows 98 SE