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Abit IS7 (Springdale) Motherboard Review
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Monday, May 26, 2003
Benchmarks - Overclocked
Overclocking
Overclocking on the IS7 was a very pleasant experience and in a desperate attempt to reach 1000Mhz FSB with our OEM 3.0Ghz Pentium 4 I ran into a brick wall at around 235-240Mhz FSB.
The system would boot at 1000Mhz FSB with some major voltage adjustments, but due to heat and fear of melting our 500 dolla CPU it was decided to back the speed down to a respectable level. This proved to be a good move on our part since despite the system being very stable at 240Mhz FSB the Sisoft Sandra CPU benchmark would crash consistently. After further investigation it was discovered that if the FSB was set at or above 240Mhz FSB the benchmark would crash when the HyperThreading benchmarks were enabled.
The system would boot at 1000Mhz FSB with some major voltage adjustments, but due to heat and fear of melting our 500 dolla CPU it was decided to back the speed down to a respectable level. This proved to be a good move on our part since despite the system being very stable at 240Mhz FSB the Sisoft Sandra CPU benchmark would crash consistently. After further investigation it was discovered that if the FSB was set at or above 240Mhz FSB the benchmark would crash when the HyperThreading benchmarks were enabled.
Now despite the system being able to finish all but the CPU benchmark at 245Mhz FSB the Sandra scores were recorded at 235Mhz FSB.
Wcpuid 240Mhz
SiSoft Sandra @ 3.5Ghz
Memory scores are not as high was I would have expected due partially to the memory clock being set at 5:4. (((235 * 4)/5) * 2) = 376Mhz
Cachemem
