Don't they make motherboards?

Most people probably know ASUS as a motherboard manufacturer. Back in the day, every overclocker out there knew about ASUS's Socket7 boards. ASUS sort of faded away from the overclocking scene when the Intel Slot-1 processors hit the market.

This was about the time when the Celeron 300A first appeared. We all remember the legendary Celeron 300A. The 300A used a 4.5 multiplier and a 66MHz FSB, but people were able to overclock this particular processor all the way up to 450MHz by upping the FSB speed to 100MHz.

A little voltage please

Unfortunately, not all the 300A processors could reach 450MHz without a little help. People soon discovered that a good percentage of the processors that couldn't hit 450MHz at the default 2.00V power setting, but were able to overclock with a little more juice. The Celerons needed 2.10V, 2.20V, or even 2.30V to reach 450MHz. This is where ASUS lost the overclocking crown.

The primary ASUS Slot-1 board at the time, the P2B, couldn't adjust the processor voltage. Sure, you could get around that by taping pins, but why go through the trouble when there was another motherboard out there that allowed you to adjust the voltage along with the multiplier and FSB all in the BIOS with some kind of SoftMenu thing� Yes, Abit stole the overclocking spotlight with the BH6, and hasn't looked back since.

It's all about stability

While the P2B wasn't all that for overclocking, but it was one of the most stable Slot-1 motherboards on the market -the board of choice for many non-overclockers. It's not surprising that ASUS has taken its quest for stability to its newest line of video cards. What? ASUS video cards? A few of you may already know that ASUS has been making video cards for quite a while now.

ASUS's AGP-V3800 TNT2 card is one of the most feature rich TNT2 cards available, and the PCI-V3800/TV is one of the only PCI TNT2 cards we've ever heard of. ASUS is ready with its next line of GeForce based video cards, the AGP-V6600 series. Read on to find out about the two different AGP-V6600 GeForce cards, and what ASUS is doing to make its GeForce boards stand out from the pack ( Video Editing, SmartDoctor, Dynamic Overclocking).