Overclocking

In order to find out the overclocking potential of the AA8XE Fatal1ty we put a Dangerden TDX waterblock on our CPU and set the multiplier to 14x using EIST.

The maximum 100% stable FSB we could reach was 323 MHz. Further testing showed strong evidence that the CPU was the limiting factor here. My guess is, that this board can take you well into the 350 FSB region.

Settings for reaching that overclock were: Multi: 14x, Memory: 4:3, VCore: 1.5875, FSB VTT: 1.35, DDR: 2.20, DDR VTT: 1.10, NB: 1.85, NB2.5: 2.55

While I am not sure how much overclocking headroom the OTES MOSFET cooling adds, it sure helps keep your board alive. Once you heavily overclock motherboards which do not have proper MOSFET cooling, it is not uncommon, that they reach over 100°C.