Overclocking
Another fun part of a review,
the overclocking section. My goal? To see exactly how many more
mhz I can push out of my cpu and ram.
My ram is generic, so I wasn't
expecting to get too much out of it (also because I have two
sticks). However, it turned out to be a great overclocker, I
got it to 366mhz on the slowest timings (it's rated 266mhz pc2100
cas 2.5), giving me a whopping 2500 mb/sec of memory bandwith.
One thing that is great about this motherboard is it has almost
every option available for overclocking your ram. Every speed,
(including 1T command, which was included in a bios update).
The only thing it lacks is bank interleave modes.
Yummm, 2500 MB/s.
As for my cpu, the overclocking
didn't go AS well. I have a p42.0a, which means a high multiplier
(20x). The CPUt went up to 2.2ghz on stock voltage (110fsb),
giving me a 440mhz FSB. And by bumping up the Voltage by .025
it can hit 2.3ghz (115 fsb) and a FSB of 460mhz. VCore does
jump around a lot on this motherboard, which does make overclocking
hard once the voltage is high up. At a later time (After this
review was written) I used a p4s533 bios on this motherboard
and was able to obain a fsb of 127.
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