Turbo Drive: Two Dual Boards with 2000 MHz

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Overclocking Functions

Both boards offer the possibility to operate the front side bus beyond specifications. The BIOS offers extensive adjustment variations, while the Asus CUV4X-D seems to be user-friendlier. Since most Pentium III processors are equipped with a fixed multiplier, the processor can only be overclocked by an increase of the front side bus clock. For this purpose, both boards offer finely adjustable clocks for the FSB. Optimum cooling of the CPU allows overclocking the FSB to 150 MHz, which produces a processor clock of 1125 MHz (7.5 x 150 MHz = 1125 MHz) in case of the Pentium III/1000.

Test Configuration

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Hardware
ProcessorsTwo Intel Pentium III 1000 MHz
L2 cache clock1000 MHz
Front Side Bus133 MHz
Memory Clock133 MHz
MemoryWichmann Workx PC133 SDRAM 256 MB CL2(max. 1,1 GB/s transfer rate)
MotherboardsASUS CUV4X-D, VIA Apollo Pro 133A, Rev. 1.03Bios 11/29/2000ACORP 6A815D, Intel 815E, Rev. 0.2Bios 12/21/2000
Graphics cardNVIDIA Quadro 2 ProTreiber 6.5, DirectX 8.0
SoundOnboard sound disabled
NIC3COM 3C905B-TX, 100 MBit
fHard diskIBM DTLA-307030, UltraATA/100, 30 GBVIA 4 in 1 driversr 4.28 (Beta)
Software & Settings
OS versionWindows 2000 Pro, Service Pack 1
Display resolution1024 x 768 x 16 x 85
SYSmark 2000Version 1.0, Patch 4
3D Studio Max R3Rendering of ktx_race.max scene
Cinema 4D XL 5.3Rendering/Animation of bottle.c4d scene
SUSE Linux 6.4Linux Kernel Compilation