Soltek bundles what it calls RedStorm Overclocking Technology with their
motherboards.
This is more for novice overclockers, it will keep raising the
FSB 1 MHz at a time till the CPU becomes unstable. While this may
sound like a good feature, it didn't work very well. Redstorm told us that the highest
we could go was 147 MHz FSB which was relatively quite low, after
confirming that the system was stable at that speed I decided to try overclocking
the old fashion way and up the FSB myself. After tinkering with it for a bit, I found
I could hit 158 MHz FSB before I ran into stability
problems!
11 MHz FSB is brings quite a big performance
difference!
pcstats
test system specs: |
|
computer hardware:
|
|
processor: |
intel pentium 4 1.6a |
clock
speed: |
16 x 133 mhz = 2.13 ghz
16 x 158 mhz = 2.53 ghz |
motherboards: |
soltek sl-85dr2 |
chipset: |
intel i845e |
videocard: |
albatron geforce4 ti4600 |
memory: |
256mb kingston ddr333 |
hard
drive: |
40 gb samsung
sp4004h hdd |
cdrom: |
nec 52x cd-rom |
floppy: |
panasonic 1.44mb floppy drive |
heatsink: |
retail intel hsf |
powersupply: |
antec 400w psu |
software
setup |
windowsxp build 2600 intel inf
4.00 detonatorxp 29.42 |
benchmarks |
sysmark 2002 business winstone 2001 content creation
2001 specviewperf 6.1.2 super pi sisoft sandra 2002
pro 3dmark2001 se quake iii
arena |
SysMark2002 is more of an extension of SysMark2001
rather then a whole new benchmark. The applications used during testing have
been updated and most importantly for AMD users, the new SysMark2002 uses the
Windows Media Encoder 7.1 which supports the AthlonXP's SSE
instructions.
At 133
MHz FSB the system is already damn fast and overclocking doesn't seem to help much.