After a recent UK overclocking competition held by Abit I thought I should bring the results of the winning setup just to show what £80 worth of motherboard can do!!
Setup:
Abit AB9 with vdimm & vmch mods
Intel E6700 Retail (L629A) lapped
PC5300 Tenth Anniversary (Micron D9GMH [B6-3])
ATi Radeon 7000 PCI
PC Power & Cooling 510W
Cooling:
Johanns Benchbox (an epic SS cooler cheers man)
MMouse Alu pot Rev 3
Mods:
Special thanks to Crotale
Vdimm
Vmch
Vcore
Results:
Maximum CPU speed
Validation
Maximum FSB Speed
Validation
SuperPi 1M
Some comments about the setup:
The pot used is a solid aluminium Mousepot from Jason, loaded with dry ice and acetone, on loaded temps -72oC, idle temps @ 1.74vcore -63oC loaded temps @ 1.74vcore <-60oC
Benching was carried out with a phase cooler mounted on the northbrige, loaded temps with 1.83vmch >-63oC
voltmods onboard include vdimm (2.6volts) vmch (1.83volts) and vcore (~1.7volts)
cpu has been lapped to improve contact with mousepot
BIOS' used were official v1.5 and beta v1.9 (multiplier manipulation performed in windows with crystalcpuid for beta BIOS)
Additional pics from Benching:
Conclusions :
Abit have returned in form! This is one of their cheapest boards on the Intel chipset platform and performs great. What is impressive and can't be conveyed by the photos is the stability, I know alot of you have been giving off about Asus P5B boards being a pain in the backside when they fail a POST, requiring blanking of the BIOS and even just being inoperable. The Abit is great, just restart ti and it normally recovers going into a safe mode, plus you can save BIOS profiles anyway in the BIOS so once you've got a good overclocking profile just save it and if anything goes wrong just restart in "safe mode" and reload the profile. Ace. Good work Abit now keep it up for the 680i board!!!!!
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