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Date Posted: June 10, 2002

The BIOS Continued

    The last BIOS screen we will look at is the DRAM Clock/Drive Control screen.  This allows you to modify many settings for your memory, and also allows for many automatic settings for memory performance, and the turbo setting seems to have everything set correctly for maximum performance.  At any rate the settings I used are basically the Fast settings with the command rate at 2T, due to the generic nature of my RAM.

Overclocking

    With all those overclocking features in the BIOS and all the room for large heatsinks, it is plain to see the design of this board was aimed directly at overclocking.  So how does it fair?  Looking at how high the FSB goes using generic PC2700 RAM we can see that it is rather impressive as it goes up to 180MHz with no stability problems (running 3D Mark 2001SE for 24 Hours straight).  The DDR voltage was 3V as this low end RAM needed that much voltage to just get there.  The CPU also managed to finally break into the upper 1200's and runs at 1260MHz at 2V which is up from the 1200MHz at 1.94V of the Abit KT7.  This may not sound great but my Athlon 1GHz just didn't want to go higher, even at 2.2V.

    A very good addition to this board is the 1/5 PCI divider and also the 2/5  AGP divider which allows for the AGP and PCI buses to be within their respective specifications at 166MHz.  This helps the board overclock to 200+ FSB with the PCI bus running at only 40MHz compared to 50MHz(!) if it only had a 1/4 divider.

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