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Soltek SL-K8AV-R 'Black Thunder' Motherboard Review

Author: Dennis Garcia

Published: Tuesday, December 09, 2003

Benchmarks - Overclocked

Overclocking

Here is where things change up for the K8T800. The highest overclock I could muster from the system was 217Mhz FSB. This is no fault of the processor or memory but rather due to the lack of a locked PCI and AGP clock. I had mentioned before how the FSB settings were limited by the jumper block on the motherboard so this isn't really a showstopper. The only limiting factor is finding a retail Athlon64 3200+ that will run at 233Mhz FSB.

CPU-Z 217Mhz

SiSoft Sandra Various Overcloc

Memory clock remained at 1:1 so the resulting DDR speed is DDR434 at LL timings.

Cachemem

The numbers pretty much speak for themselves, only a minor gain in synthetic performance due to the higher clockspeed.