BIOS:
Albatron goes against the norm here and
uses a Phoenix BIOS rather then Award. It's no biggie since we still have all
the usual memory tweaks and overclocking options that we've grown accustomed
to.
All the memory tweaks are here from RAS
TO CAS, Active to Precharge and RAS precharge it's all here. We one very
interesting option in the CAS Latency department, there were the options 2.5, 2
and 1.5! Unfortunately we were unable to get CL 1.5 to work
with any of the memory we have and at any memory speed.
As for the overclocking options the
P4X845EPro was up the challenge as well. We could adjust the FSB 1 MHz at a time
from 100-248 MHz the RAM voltage could be upped from 2.5V to 2.8V, AGP from 1.5V
to 1.6V and we were very happy to see that the we could up the CPU core voltage
from 1.5V to 1.85V without any voltage modifications! Another handy option
that's been around for a while now with Intel based P4 chipsets is the ability
to lock your AGP and PCI frequencies to their default 66/33 MHz no matter the
FSB. This can be extremely useful especially when overclocking to extreme FSB's.
Here you can also set your RAM frequency we had some interesting options here as
well. At a 133 MHz FSB we could set the RAM to run at 353 MHz. OCWorkbench found
a similar thing with their Abit BD7-II
RAID.
Overclocking:
With so many option in the bios we were
very excited about overclocking potential. Using a Pentium 4 1.6A we could hit a
150 MHz FSB without even upping the VCore! At around 160 MHz FSB we experienced
some instability and had to up the vcore to 1.65V to stabilize it. Our
overclocking adventure got as high as 163 MHz FSB before we hit a wall. That's
not too bad, almost reaching FSB's attainable by unlocked AMD
processors!
Since the P4X845EPro is based on the
i845E chipset we're going to be running the test at 133 MHz FSB and 163 MHz FSB
only.
| pcstats
test system specs: |
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|
computer hardware:
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| processor: |
pentium 4 1.6a |
| clock
speed: |
16x133 mhz = 2.13 ghz
16x163
mhz = 2.61 ghz |
| motherboards: |
albatron p4x845epro |
| chipset: |
intel i845e |
| videocard: |
msi g4ti4600-vtd |
| memory: |
256mb kingmax ddr333 |
| hard
drive: |
40 gb maxtor
d740x |
| cdrom: |
panasonic 48x cd-rom cr-594-b
|
| floppy: |
panasonic 1.44mb floppy drive |
| heatsink: |
avc sunflower |
| powersupply: |
antec 400w psu |
| software
setup |
windowsxp build 2600
intel inf
4.00
detonatorxp 29.40 |
| benchmarks |
sysmark 2001
sysmark 2002
business winstone
2001
content creation 2001
winbench 99
sisoft sandra 2002
pro
pcmark2002
3dmark2001se
quake iii arena |
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