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HIGHEST REACHABLE SPEED
As usual, I break out the Intel FC-PGA PIII-667
processor and the Asus S370-133 slocket for this test. The 667 uses a
multiplier of 5 and a FSB of 133. This means that I'll need an unusually
high FSB setting of 160 to even get this thing to 800Mhz. which is my
current target.
All the other processors were tested next to see if this motherboard can
run them at their pretested levels.
These results are for 100% stable overclocks only with a max. voltage bump
of 1.85V for the Coppermines and 2.3 for the older processors.
Stability tests include the running of the following programs all at the
same time for at least 6 Hours:
Winamp 2.61 looping endless Techno/Tranz tunes
- Winamp AVS Plug-in
Prime95 Torture Test
3DMark2000 Looping Demo
PIII-667:
| Processor |
Max. FSB |
Voltage |
Speed |
| PIII-667 FC-PGA |
148 |
1.65 |
740 |
All the others:
| Processor |
Max. FSB |
Voltage |
Speed |
| PIII-600E FC-PGA |
140 |
1.85 |
840 |
| PIII-600E Slot-1 |
148 |
1.65 |
888 |
| PIII-450 Katmai |
140 |
2.3 |
630 |
| PIII-500 Katmai |
135 |
2.3 |
675 |
| Celeron 366 |
110 |
2.0 |
605 |
I didn't see any registry errors during my testing,
even at some outrageous settings, so that is a good sign that this board
is very stable. I was even able to run the Slot-1 PIII-600E at 148 FSB
with no voltage tweaks where I needed to up the voltage to 1.85V at an
even lower FSB on some other boards (with the exception of the Soyo
6VBA-133).
One strange thing to note though. The highest FSB that I could reach is
only 148. I can't seem to go any higher than this no matter what I do
(anyone got a hammer???). I hope a bios update will fix this thing up and
allow me to use the higher FSBs.
Compatibility wasn't a problem since the P3V4X was able to run all the
listed hardware.
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