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Date Posted: September 4, 2002

Overclocking

With all the Bios options available on the AT7 Max, the overclocking is a joy. Keeping at the 5:2:1 divider and starting at 166mhz, I slowly increased the FSB. I hit the 171 FSB mark before not being able to run 3DMark and PCMark. I then reset back to the 166FSB mark and tried the multiplier. Raising it from 8.5 to 9 took me to near the 1.5 gig mark and all was fine. Any higher and Windows wouldn't boot. I expected as much as previous experience has taught me that overclocking with the FSB and this chip yeilds higher results. The best overclock I could get was 1.533 with the multiplier at 9 and the FSB at 170. Going to 171 on the FSB with 9 on the multiplier was possible but not stable enough to run 3DMark or PCMark every single time. As I stated earlier I had already raised the DDR voltage to 2.65v and further increases didn't help me in my overclocking endevours.

Overclocking this 1.4 Thunderbird before I was able to reach the same speeds but not with this high an FSB. The divider and DDR voltage controls have been the most use here. Memory settings in the Bios are able to run on agressive if I maintain the chips rated speed which again, is pretty damn good considering the high FSB I'm useing here. I get the feeling that the board isn't holding me back, but rather the CPU and/or mem is. As soon as I update both of these I'll be sure to post my results in the Forums. All in all I'm impressed with the stablity and ease of overclocking this board.

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