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Gigabyte has gotten into the overclocking game quite
aggressively, and the results of its efforts are definitely paying off. The
Intel Core 2 Duo 'Conroe' E6600 processor runs
on a 1066 MHz FSB (266 MHz motherboard clock speed) which means it's already
faster than what any Pentium D 840 could overclock too from a 800MHz (200MHz)
starting point. As usual before the overclocking began, PCSTATS set the Corsair Twin2X2048-6400C4 memory frequency to run in
DDR2-533 mode, this way the memory will not hold the Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6
motherboard back.
Starting at 266 MHz FSB the Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6's clock
speed was increased in 5 MHz increments. At 330 MHz the Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
processor needed a slight boost to 1.4V. The system next hit a snag at 370 MHz,
this time around the 965 Express Northbridge voltage had to be increased by an
additional 0.25V.
The Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 was able to hit the 400 MHz,
but anything past 406 MHz was a no go. We're not quite sure what held the
GA-965P-DQ6 back... tweaking voltages didn't seem to help any. A speed of 406
MHz isn't too bad for this platform, so let's get into the benchmarks now and
see what they have to say.
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As The Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6
motherboard is compatible with ATi's CrossFire technology, that's why
there are two physical PCI Express x16 slots. Only the primary slot (in
blue) gets a full 16 PCI express lanes to itself. The orange PCI Express
Lite slot has four lanes, three of which come from the three PCI Express
x1 slots. When used with a second videocard these are all disabled.
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Inside the Gigabyte
BIOS:
Gigabyte locates all the tweaker friendly
options under the same section. You can adjust the motherboard frequency from
100-700 MHz in 1 MHz increments. Here you'll also find the traditional memory
timing adjustments, CAS Latency, RAS to CAS and RAS Precharge. Memory voltage
options allow increasing the DDR2 voltage to 0.725V above stock and PCI Express
to 0.35V above stock. Northbridge voltage can be raised by 0.75V, FSB voltage
0.35V and the CPU voltage can go as high as 2.375V.
Prelude to Benchmarks
The
details of how the Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 motherboard test system was configured
for benchmarking, including the specific hardware, software drivers, operating
system and benchmark versions are indicated below. In the second column are the
general specs for the reference platforms this Intel P965 Express based system
is to be compared against. Please take a moment to look over PCSTATS test system
configurations before moving on to the individual benchmark results.
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| PCSTATS Test System Configurations |
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