AOPEN AX34 SOUND DRIVER DOWNLOAD

As with other Apollo Pro boards, the AX34 lets you run the memory clock at the same speed as the FSB the usual setting for other motherboards , or at 33MHz more or less. AOpen's made another black motherboard. Four drives only, but no boot difficulties. There's no point using the AMR slot for audio, because the AX34 Pro II, unusually for an overclockers' board, includes ACcompliant plain vanilla audio hardware, with the usual couple of inputs and single output on its rear-panel connector block, and on-board connectors for internal sound sources like modems and CD-ROM drives. Now, to most people, a black motherboard is about as interesting as a shiny enamelled engine for their car. Even with spread spectrum disabled, though, you only get 66, 75, 78, 81 and 83MHz settings below MHz, which means this board isn't well suited to red-line Celeron overclocking. But if your RAM can't manage it, it doesn't matter with a board like this.

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The AX34 Pro II would be an excellent suond for the Socket overclocker even if it was the same boring green as most other motherboards; the black-and-silver look is a bonus.

Socket CPUs can, with a "slotket" adapter, plug straight into Slot 1, and many Slot 1 motherboards work fine with the new chips. This is a good price, for a motherboard with these specs.

The Aoen puts the big fat CPU power supply smoothing capacitors far enough away from the processor socket that there should be room to mount the most outrageous of chip coolers.

VIA Apollo Pro 133A Motherboard Roundup - July 2000

If you don't have any interest at all in souped-up computing, though, this isn't the motherboard for you. For hardware enthusiasts, though, a black board with all the latest twiddly bits makes an excellent core for the latest revision of their screaming top-spec game machine. The AMR slot's pretty aaopen useless.

Give Soumd some money! This seems simple enough, but changing the FSB also changes the speeds at which other buses in the computer run. There's also an optional external switch for the BIOS swapper, which saves you from having to open the case and move the jumper.

It's a built-for-speed overclockers' board, designed to give you the best possible chance of getting your CPU running substantially faster than the sticker says it should. AOpen also refer to this board in their press bumf as "Black Beauty". As with aoppen Apollo Pro boards, the AX34 lets you run the memory clock at the same speed as the FSB the usual setting for other motherboardssounx at 33MHz more or less.

This doesn't make a huge amount of difference, though; you don't need to upgrade from Slot 1 just to use a newer Intel CPU.

AOpen AX34-U - motherboard - ATX - Socket 370 - Pro133T

Want a top-class Socket motherboard? Spread spectrum's meant to reduce the radio-frequency noise created by the clock pulses; it seldom seems to make the slightest difference to system performance.

You might as well get something cheaper. The only issue is a mechanical one - at by millimetres, this is an unusually large motherboard. There's no point using the AMR slot for audio, because the AX34 Pro II, unusually for an overclockers' board, includes ACcompliant plain vanilla audio hardware, with the usual couple of inputs and single output on its rear-panel connector block, and on-board connectors for internal sound sources like modems and CD-ROM drives.

High speed operation of a complicated aoppen of electronics full of conductive traces in complex patterns, without interference problems, is tricky.

Review: AOpen AX34 Pro II motherboard

Well, you have if it works, anyway. First up, it's got lots of CPU speed adjustment potential, which I'll deal with in detail in the "Overclocking" section below. Again, I'm not sure how useful this feature is. This means they only work with operating systems that have drivers aipen suit them - often, just Windows.

Overall Want a top-class Socket motherboard? Many overclockers, being fanatical gamers, don't want on-board sound - they want their shiny four-output positional audio board.

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Of course, you can run fans from plain power supply connectors as well; you don't need to use any motherboard fan headers if you don't want to.

But with three-wire fans, the headers let system monitoring software keep tabs on the fan speed, which is a handy feature. What you get Unlike the old black AX6BC, the black AX34 comes in a34 box with a window and a see-through clamshell plastic case, so it doesn't look normal aopne sitting on the shelf.

And many host based modems have compatibility problems with some other eound. It's got the standard ATX mounting screw holes, but it may be a tight fit in smaller cases. But there's no harm in using it, if you've got it.

The surface finish on a heat sink that's primarily cooled by air flow is pretty much completely irrelevant, but it sure looks purty. And very ao;en FSBs - at the moment, MHz still qualifies as "very high" - make large demands on the motherboard design.

With its built in sound and reasonable price, this board would actually do fine as the basis for a plain vanilla PC, running an old Celeron or something. It clearly doesn't add much to the price of the board.

It also makes it easy to make use of lower capacity modules from dound old motherboard, and add more RAM, without running out of slots.