ULi M1697 Ref Board Benchmarks 12
Bluetooth 3 Dec 2005

Benchmarks - Overclocking

If you have been following developments in the ULi chipsets, you would have probably seen how well the ULI M1695 chipset is in terms of overclocking. Although retail boards from ASrock restricted the overclocking capability in its official BIOS, the beta BIOS did help some to achieve the 400HTT that was shown on our ref board review.

This time round, we check out how far we can push the board in terms of CLK since it supplies a range of 200 ~ 400MHz. CPU Voltage was set to 1.5v.

In our test, we used our FX-53, rather old CPU that is not easily overclocked. We set the board to run in ASYNC mode at DDR200, that is to say, when CLK is 400MHz, RAM will run only at 200MHz (DDR400). This is done so that we do not want to explore the highest CLK we can get from this board. CPU Multiplier is set to 6x and CLK set to 400MHz. The Hypertransport Multiplier is also reduced to 400MHz so that we do not go beyond the Hypertransport limit of 1GHz for this test.

After that, we save and exit the BIOS and shut off the Power. Power up the system and we booted into Windows XP and CPU-Z shows the screen shot below.

On another test, we set the ram to run SYNC with CPU (1:1). CLK is set to 300MHz and we were able to get into Windows and run some applications at 300MHz x 8 with RAM running at DDR600. For better stability, I think retail boards must include vdimm adjustments which is missing from this reference board.

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