Using the ABIT Soft Menu II to adjust CPU settings like bus speed and core voltage is very easy. Just go into the BIOS and voila. I used two 333 Mhz PPGA Celeron processors for my overclocking fix. As expected I left out the default CPU settings cause who the hell wants to run their CPU at default speed anyway? Check out the results:
Speed
Bus Speed
Post
Windows
Stable
375
75
Yes
Yes
Yes
415
83
Yes
Yes
Yes
500
100
Yes
Yes
Yes
450?!?
100 w/ Turbo
Yes
No
No
Stability was determined by running the WinBench 99 Suite a minimum of three times without any crashes that could be determined was caused by the hardware.
As you can see from the above chart, I was stuck at 500 Mhz
per processor. I even tried running just one but 500 Mhz was the limit. The
weird 450 Mhz POST reading when I tried 100Mhz bus with turbo, I'm sure it
wasn't the right speed. But I never made into Windows so I can find out what it
really was. As you can imagine, I was pretty pissed when I couldn't break the
500 Mhz barrier. I selected those two Celerons in the hopes of making to 550
Mhz.
Well obviously I didn't select them well enough. I did order two Celerons
at 366 Mhz, maybe I can get those to scream at 550 Mhz. We'll see. As far as
stability goes, this motherboard is as stable as the likes of the BX6, BH6 and
even the BE6. Think about it, instead of having to handle one crazy clocked
processor, it handles two, and does an awesome job doing it. That's stability in
my book. My one main bitch about the board is the inability to disable one of
the processors in the BIOS. You have to physically pull the mother out in order
to disable it.
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