The SL-K8AN-RL offers mainstream and budget users a
good solution for adopting the Athlon64. Enthusiasts will probably find the core capability
of the Soltek SL-K8AN-RL lacking for their needs, but then again it is not really being
targeted towards the overclocking crowd. Anyway knowing all of that, we still decided to see how
high we could push the little board.
Slowly we started to raise the clock speed of the SL-K8AN-RL motherboard from
200 MHz. At 206 MHz we ran into some problems that required us to raise the
memory voltage to 2.8V. After that was done everything was pretty much smooth
sailing all the way up to 216 MHz.... but after that we had to raise the processor
voltage to 1.55V.
In the end after a bit of coaxing the
maximum speed we could run the motherboard was 219 MHz which is not too bad all things
considered.
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| PCStats Test System Specs: |
| processor: |
amd athlon64 3200+ |
| clock
speed: |
10 x 200 mhz = 2 ghz
10 x 219 mhz = 2.19
ghz |
| motherboards: |
msi k8t neo via k8t800
albatron k8x800 pro ii via
k8t800
soltek sl-k8an-rl via nforce3 150 |
| videocard: |
ati radeon 9800 pro |
| memory: |
2x 256mb corsair twinx3200ll |
| hard drive:
|
40gb western digital special
ed. |
| cdrom: |
nec 52x cd-rom |
| powersupply: |
vantec 470w stealth psu |
| software
setup |
windowsxp build 2600
via 4in1 4.49
catalyst 3.7 |
| workstation
benchmarks |
sysmark2002
business winstone 2002
content
creation 2002
winbench 99
sisoft sandra
2004
pcmark2002
3dmark2001se
quake iii
arena
ut2003 | |
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