Fan Noise

The ECS PF88 uses no active fans when running without SIMA card, so it's a very quiet solution. Some SIMA cards have a fan though.

Overclocking

In the BIOS section we talked about a bug where any FSB bigger than 281 MHz actually becomes 281.4 MHz. However, the BIOS still thinks it is running at that clock speed. Which allows interesting results...

6750 MHz... but in Windows...


4221 MHz at 281.4 FSB. Even when using SysTool to change the FSB from within Windows by directly accessing the clock generator wouldn't work.

While the system did boot at 4221 MHz, the benchmarks were not stable. We had to drop the clocks down to 3300 MHz, a mere 10% overclock over the stock 3000 MHz.