Could B3 Phenom be the rebirth of AMD....+1000MHZ OC done!

[Charles Wirth]

Abit boards I had time on;

AN78GS was the best overclocking motherboard with the Nvidia chipset. It reached a significantly higher HT speed. 11,200 stock 2K1, 12,500 overclocked to 3Ghz, this mobo also reached 3.25Ghz on an 9850BE.

AS78H was the highest performing onboard graphics 12,300 stock 2K1 and 13,200 overclocked to 2.88Ghz

AX78 alreached 240HT speeds and maxed out the 9750 phenom at 2.88Ghz, lacking onboard graphics I used an 8800Ultra and scored 34K on 2K1 with lod 0, this board was the poorest performer of the bunch.

All boards above should not be "game" nor was graphics "smooth" if fact, horrid stuttering with an 8800 Ultra surprised me. Granted these are budget boards but surely not acceptable for "smooth" gaming.

If you consider very low FPS (cpu overclocked 480Mhz+) in high detail scenes smoother then ok, you win. I can now remember the last time I seen single digit FPS from an 8800 Ultra in 2k1.

I tried LN2 on a few cores, none would go sub zero. Please be aware if the chipsets/models used, they are not the top end.