This was my first experience overclocking with a Pentium 4, I had heard that these 1.6a chips were able to do really well and should be able to hit at least 2.5Ghz or so. I played around in the BIOS for a while with all of the memory settings and the Vcore which was the only voltage I was allowed to change.
After testing this motherboard for a while the highest overclock I was able to get out of it was 1.92Ghz (16×120). I probably would have been able to get a higher overclock if I would have been able to drop the multiplier which I could not because these CPUs are locked and I did not have the wire or the guts to unlock it.
I also needed to be able to give this RAM some more voltage because I feel that that was really holding it back. AOpen motherboards are not known for being the best overclockers but they do bring some other things to the table which other companies do not. All of the overclocking benchmarks were run the same was as the stock ones, below is a shot of WCPUID showing the overclocked speeds.
I ram PCMark2002 again while overclocked and saw a good improvement in all of the differant areas of the benchmark. I was able to overclock this CPU more than I was the results would have been much more impressive.
I ran SiSoft Sandra Pro 2002 again and ran the memory bandwidth benchmarking there was a really good increase in scores by only upping the FSB by 20 which means that if I could have gotten this motherboard to let me do more it would have done even better.
I ran 3DMark2001SE again and got 1304 more points while being overclocked than I did at stock. Because this is more of a video card benchmark than a CPU benchmark the increase isnt much to talk about then again if you are trying to beat someone in 3DMark2001SE scores this 1304 point increase could do it for ya.
After the overclock Vulpine GLMark saw only a 3.4FPS increase while overclocked which isn’t really much to talk about.
The last benchmark again was Quake 3 – Demo001 here we see a really good increase in FPS a big 34.7 more which is really good and let’s you know that the overclock is doing the job that it’s supposed to do.
