once again the Core 2's prove to be amazing overclockers, but now Asus proves they can work wonders with intels 965 chipset proving that it can be a great overclocker as well!
they take a E6300 from stock 1.86GHz to 3.68GHz!!
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This is a 100% bus overclock and it clearly demonstrates the added flexibility of the lower speed Core 2 Duo chips.
Excuse me while I go dribble outside a PC store. I mean, SuperPI at under 15 mins from a £120 CPU >< Mine still retails for £60 and it takes over an hour.
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Seems like they did much better overclocking than when they used an ASUS P5W DH Deluxe. Too bad they didn't even run the limited benches on the 6600 and 6700. I'd bet the 6300 would beat both of them.
hmm..
Guess i'll wait a little while longer before buying a motherboard then. Most other companies should follow suit.
Now we gotta figure out which C2D's are unlocked upwards..
Can someone clarify for me - it is better to have a low multiplier and high fsb than a low fsb and high multiplier, right? And the higher your FSB is, the more unstable having a high multiplier will be? Is this why people are turning multipliers down and turning the fsb up?
Is there something i'm missing?
If it's better to have a high fsb and lower multiplier so that the whole system & ram runs faster, why don't people just buy the E6300/400 chips with low multipliers?
Is it simply because the more expensive chips are hand picked and are known to handle higher fsb ratings than the cheap ones when on the same low multiplier?
once again the Core 2's prove to be amazing overclockers, but now Asus proves they can work wonders with intels 965 chipset proving that it can be a great overclocker as well!
they take a E6300 from stock 1.86GHz to 3.68GHz!!
This is a 100% bus overclock and it clearly demonstrates the added flexibility of the lower speed Core 2 Duo chips.
wow! my e6400 & p5b is coming this monday, can't wait 8)
He means that you'll have to flash your bios to get a downward multiplier. With a lower multiplier, poepl will be able to run their fsb and ram with a 1:1 ratio =D
He means that you'll have to flash your bios to get a downward multiplier. With a lower multiplier, poepl will be able to run their fsb and ram with a 1:1 ratio =D
2. Inside the BIOS menu there an Asus Tool Flash program. (I'm at work and can't remember the exact name, but easy to navigate)
3. The Bios Flash utility program will detect your USB flash drive and you can load your new bios.
4. Reboot.. Done.
If you haven’t flashed a bios this way you'll be really happy especially if you’re an old schooler. Trying to find a working 3.5" floppy these days is an arduous task.
Love this board BTW. So happy to read this review today when I was surfin Anandtech.
My advice about this board is that it's very selective on DDR2 RAM. Do your homework before you buy. This will save you some time from having to RMA. Other than that, it's very easy to get up and running. Not one problem on my end. I did remove all the crappy thermal putty on the N/S bridge passive coolers. I replaced it with AS5. I havn't seen my mainboard temps over 35-36. My CPU runs a bit hotter around 40 idle at stock speeds. I was somewhat suprised with the Scythe cooler, but I've read this temp is quite common on this mainboard. I just hope the Scythe shows it's stuff when I start hitting a higher FSB.
So for an e6600 with DDR2-6400, you'd want to drop the multiplier to 6 and up the FSB to 400mhz for best performance? You'd still get an overall cpu speed of 2.4ghz, but would be running 1:1 with ram.
Or would running asynchonous with ram be more beneficial to get higher cpu core speeds? Or should one set the FSB to 400mhz and monkey with the multiplier to find stability? 2.4ghz-3.6??
My advice about this board is that it's very selective on DDR2 RAM. Do your homework before you buy. This will save you some time from having to RMA. Other than that, it's very easy to get up and running. Not one problem on my end. I did remove all the crappy thermal putty on the N/S bridge passive coolers. I replaced it with AS5. I havn't seen my mainboard temps over 35-36. My CPU runs a bit hotter around 40 idle at stock speeds. I was somewhat suprised with the Scythe cooler, but I've read this temp is quite common on this mainboard. I just hope the Scythe shows it's stuff when I start hitting a higher FSB.
