Gigabyte C.I.A.2 auto overclocking facility
Bluetooth 21 June 2004

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Front Side Bus is still a valid and important criteria when judging systems performance. As for the Gigabyte 8GPNXP Duo, the complication starts when we used two commonly used programs to measure the FSB. One shows 202 and the other 210. Does that mean it is overclocked too much by its built in C.I.A.2 ?

To demonstrate it, we ran Super PI and and ran the utility to check the clock speed. We checked the display and found that FSB was raised from default of 202 to 210MHz. That is to say, if you get a 915 board and run it at 210MHz FSB, you would get on par performance just like what the C.I.A.2 does. The only thing C.I.A.2 does is that it does not need you to change the FSB within BIOS as everything is automatic.

Watch the video and see for yourself what happens when Super PI is run.

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