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Inside the Epox 8NPA SLI BIOS
The Epox 8NDA SLI motherboard comes with a whole load of
memory tweaking options, just because you're not using the latest and
greatest CPU does not mean you don't to tweak!
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experts tip: a little known memory tweak... |
| epox offers dozens of memory
options in the bios of the 8npa sli motherboard, but the option
that most affects system performance is 'Row Cycle
Time' or 'Trc.' Memory willing, setting this value to '7T' should give
the system a performance boost similar to what one would see when playing with the
CAS Latency settings. If you have really good quality DDR, this will work.
Bargain basement DDR will have a harder time running with Trc set to
7T. To be safe we'd recommend testing the system for stability before doing anything that
is mission critical after making this adjustment. |
| Comments and Feedback? Suggest a Tweak. |
Users can adjust the motherboard frequency
from 200-400 MHz, in 1 MHz increments. The PCI Express clock speed can be
adjusted from 100-145 MHz, however that is better left alone. The Epox 8NPA
SLI has multiplier control options, and CPU voltage can be increased 0.05V. DDR memory voltage
goes as high as 3.1V, and chipset voltage all the way to 1.8V.
Now a quick look at the test system specs
before we move right into the full spectrum of benchmarks. The Epox 8NPA SLI was
tested with an AMD Athlon64 3200+
processor.
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| PCStats Test System Specs: |
| processor: |
amd
athlon64 4000+
amd athlon64
3200+* |
| clock speed: |
12 x 200 mhz =
2.4 ghz
10 x 200 mhz = 2
ghz |
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k8x890 pro ii (k8t890)
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(rs480)
asrock 939dual-sata2 (uli m1695)
chaintech zenith vnf4 ultra (nf4 ultra)
dfi lanparty nf4 sli-dr (nf4 sli)
epox 9npa+ sli (nf4 sli)*
ecs kn1 extreme sli (nf4 sli)
epox 8npa sli (nf4 sli) |
| videocard: |
msi nx7800gtx-vt2d256e |
| memory: |
2x 512mb pdp pdc1g3200+xblk |
| hard drive: |
74gb western digital raptor sata |
| cdrom: |
aopen combo 52x |
| heatsink: |
amd athlon64 4000+
reference heatsink |
| powersupply: |
pc power & cooling turbocool 510
sli |
| software setup
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windowsxp
forceware
6.53
forceware 78.01 |
| workstation benchmarks
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sysmark
2004
business winstone 2004
content creation 2004
super pi
sisoft sandra
2005
pcmark04
pcmark05
3dmark2001se
3dmark05
aquamark3
comanche 4
x2: the
threat
ut2003
ut2004
doom 3
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