Overclocking Marathon Day 3 - A Budget Build

Features
By published

Performance Analysis

And now, the performance analysis taking into account all of the scoring:

The overclock looks tremendously successful, but we fear this wouldn't remain the case at resolutions above 1600x1200. In this respect our budget system has an advantage over the other systems in this marathon.

You can't argue with a 75% overclock. Applications like CPU and memory speed, and it shows.

The synthetic benchmarks are more conservative than our application benchmarks and are more in line with the game results.

Don Woligroski
Contributor

Don Woligroski was a former senior hardware editor for Tom's Hardware. He has covered a wide range of PC hardware topics, including CPUs, GPUs, system building, and emerging technologies.

1 Comment Comment from the forums
  • placeing motherboard had a Asus p5vd2-x replace with Asus p5b. i check on the pcu it intel 631 and memory,the hard drive will it work but will slower?
    Reply