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Test Setup and Overclocking
Test
Setup:
Overclocking:
During the reigning days
of the 875P and 865PE chipsets, overclocking was extremely fun.
Abit's IC7 and IS7 were exceptional overclockers and still continue to
be legendary. Many argue that the IC7 is the best Socket 478
motherboard around. I won't get into that argument, but I can tell
you that I have reached surprising overclocks with my IS7. It has
served me well.
The Abit AW8 overclocked
took me to amazing new heights. The unfortunate thing was that my
CPU was not able to keep up. I certainly had high hopes with the
AL8. With all the voltage settings at my fingertips, I was ready
to rock the board.
Equipped with an engineering
sample of the Intel 560 3.6GHz processor, I dropped the multiplier to
the lowest allowed, which was 14x, and kept memory at a 1:1 ratio and
pumped up the FSB. I made sure that the memory would not be a
bottleneck and loosened the timings to 5-5-5-15 and gave it 2.3v.
What in the heck?
That's right, the Abit AL8 overclocked very poorly. It was so
disappointing that I wanted to cry.
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