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Athlonmb.com has posted a review on the Socket A motherboard from FIC, the AZ11.

The ATX power connector is placed far enough away from the horizontally-mounted 462-pin Socket A that it won't affect the cooling device placed on the CPU, but the capacitors and voltage regulators could become a nuisance if the heatsink extends past the edge of the socket entirely. In the realm of overclocking, the man with multiplier settings is king. Unfortunately, the AZ11 does not have these available to change (without heavy modification) nor does it have the ability to change the voltage settings. What we are left to play with is simply the FSB settings. There is a wide variety of settings ranging from 100 MHz to 133 MHz. During my testing, I was able to get my system up to 106 MHz FSB while the memory was set to HOSTCLOCK+33 and up to 109 MHz FSB while the memory was set HOSTCLOCK speed. This simply shows that my memory was unable to run at speeds greater than 143 MHz. The FIC AZ11 is not very overclocker friendly, with it only allowing you to change one of the three necessary settings for successful overclocking.
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