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DFI LanParty Dark X38 Motherboard Review
Author: Dennis Garcia
Published: Thursday, May 15, 2008
Benchmarks - Overclocked
As with all of our reviews we pit the default speed system against the overclocked one in a head to head byte match. The results of this are below. The effective overclock here is 3.6Ghz @ 450Mhz FSB. We had issues getting our Q6600 above the magical 3.6Ghz mark so opted to drop the multiplier and raise the FSB to match. Memory frequency was below our target mark but still respectable at a 1:1 FSB ratio.
As with all of our reviews we pit the default speed system against the overclocked one in a head to head byte match. The results of this can be seen below.
SiSoft Sandra Various Overclocks
Quake 4
Overclocking Conclusion
The overclocking experience on the LanPartyDK X38 was astoundingly simple. In fact aside from some minor confusion about why the vCore voltage setting was renamed the process was un-eventful.
In fact we discovered that our Q6600 would run stable at 3.2Ghz without any voltage tweaks however as we approached the magical 3.6Ghz voltage increases became more common and stability could not be maintained beyond that.
At this point it was decided to simply drop the multiplier and start tweaking the FSB which is how we arrived at the 450Mhz FSB x 8 final setting. This didn't do much for memory bandwidth but did completely confuse our Cachemem benchmark to the point where the result was completely unusable.
In fact we discovered that our Q6600 would run stable at 3.2Ghz without any voltage tweaks however as we approached the magical 3.6Ghz voltage increases became more common and stability could not be maintained beyond that.
At this point it was decided to simply drop the multiplier and start tweaking the FSB which is how we arrived at the 450Mhz FSB x 8 final setting. This didn't do much for memory bandwidth but did completely confuse our Cachemem benchmark to the point where the result was completely unusable.
