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Tweaking the fastest AGP Based System - Part 1

Overclocking/OC-Team.be by massman @ 2008-03-25

While the rest of the mainstream world moves on to PCI-Express and DDR3, we take a step back to the previous generation hardware. Our aim is to build a scalable AGP benchmark platform with sole purpose: breaking overclocking records. Fueled by HWBot competition we squeeze the best AGP performance from a budget-friendly Asrock motherboard. Which memory goes the fastest? DDR1 or DDR2? Let us find out.

Interesting bios options

Bios:

As we handled the board lay-out, we're going to handle the bios option: restrict us to the things we need in order to tune our system.

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Right after you've pressed F2 to enter the bios, you'll find yourself looking at the bios main page.

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The temperature monitor isn't that elaborate.

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The tweaking center of the board, only the two first pages are really interesting.

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First issue when overclocking: the bios only supports up to 340FSB. In addition, it's not possible to change the multiplier if you have an unlocked processor.

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DDR1 memory timings

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DDR2 memory timings

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Most voltages can only be set to low/normal/high. Cpu voltage cannot be changed!

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Advanced memory configuration tab. We've not looked into this more thoroughly, but this may be the key to tune the memory to higher speeds.

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Advanced host configuration, here you can tune the chipset. Please enable the first option (Pipeline DRQCTL) as it gives noticeably higher memory bandwidth.

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Who says Asrock doesn't supply lots of tuning options?

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