Overclocking

If you read this review so far, you should probably not expect much when it comes to overclocking.

As in the previous benchmarks, we tested both DDR1 and DDR2 memory to see if there is a recommendation which memory performs best on this board.



There is no difference. As testing from the previous pages shows, both setups inhibit about the same performance. Overclocking maxxed out at 239 FSB for both. One MHz more and the system would immediately crash/not start doing the POST.

One factor which severely limits overclocking is the sheer number of traces on the PCB. DDR1, DDR2, onboard-VGA, PCI-Express and AGP sure create a lot of interference. Another factor is ATI's chipset which has certainly not been optimized for overclocking at all.

BIOS options for overclocking are very limited as well, which shows that ECS did not emphasize overclocking too much for this board, or maybe they already knew that ATI's chipset didn't offer solid overclocking, so adding the options to the BIOS would have been a waste of time, anyways.