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Overclocking
With all of the options that are in the BIOS, I was expecting an incredible
overclock. I wasn't disappointed. The 680i was notorious for
horrible overclocking with a quad core CPU. So, the first thing I
did was throw my Q6600 in. Overclocking was easy, it easily went
to 450MHz FSB with an 8 multiplier. 3.6GHz which is the most I
could get from this CPU on my P35 chipset board. On the my 680i
3.2 was about the max. Next I wanted to see if I could find the
max FSB so I took out the quad and replaced it with an E6600.
500MHz + is easy on this board, however your results may vary. A
quick note on memory overclocking. The 790i is a great chipset to
overclock memory. It's really too easy to overclock the memory
with this board. Anyway, I was able to get the Crucial Ballistix
DDR3 up to 2000MHz while keeping the timings at 8-8-8-20 1t. The
benchmark results were worse than they were at 1800 with the same
timings. I feel this is because the memory was linked in Async
mode at 1800MHz and was unlinked at 2000MHz. I decided to keep the
memory at 1800MHz linked for the testing.
Testing
For
testing we are going to run the Striker II Extreme through a gamut of benchmarks, from synthetic to
gaming. I'll show each benchmark as completely default and as overclocked. Settings for each benchmark will be listed. Test system is as follows.
| Motherboard |
Asus Striker
II Extreme |
| CPU |
C2D Q6600 |
| Video |
Sapphire HD3870
Toxic |
| Memory |
2GB Crucial
Ballistix PC3-12800 |
| Power Supply |
ePowertec 1200w |
| Storage |
2 x 500GB Seagate HDD
RAID 0 |
| Optical |
Lite-On 20X DVD+/-RW +DL |
| OS |
Windows Vista Ultimate |
While the CPU was tested at
defaults and overclocked, the memory was set to 1800MHz, CAS 8-8-8-20 and
the video card was kept at stock clocks
throughout all of the testing. Please keep in mind that this
review is about overall motherboard performance, not video card overclocking.
Sisoft
Sandra
|
Memory |
Default Clocks (2.4GHz)
1800MHz CAS 8-8-8-20 |
INT buff'd |
4816 MB/s |
| Float buff'd |
4811 MB/s |
Overclocked at 450MHz (3.6GHz)
1800MHz CAS 8-8-8-20 |
INT buff'd |
8617 MB/s |
| Float buff'd |
8607 MB/s |
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Hard Drive |
| Default Clocks
(2.4GHz) |
Read |
100.094 MB/s |
| Access Time |
13ms |
| Overclocked at
450MHz (3.6GHz) |
Read |
101.854 MB/s |
| Access Time |
6ms |
Everest 4.0
|
Everest (memory
at 1800MHz Cas 8-8-8-20 1t) |
| Test |
2.4GHz (266FSB) |
3.6GHz (450FSB) |
| Read |
5323 MB/s |
10151 MB/s |
| Write |
4843 MB/s |
8194 MB/s |
| Copy |
5354 MB/s |
8452 MB/s |
| Latency |
62.8 ns |
59.9 ns |
Cinebench
10
|
CineBench 10 |
| Default Clocks
(2.4GHz) |
Single CPU |
2458 CB-CPU |
| Dual CPU |
7162 CB-CPU |
| OpenGL |
3791 CB-GFX |
| Overclocked at
450MHz (3.6GHz) |
Single CPU |
3694 CB-CPU |
| Dual CPU |
12923 CB-CPU |
| OpenGL |
6247 CB-GFX |
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