mATX Overclocker?

Dingleberry88 · 4 Feb 2008 at 16:46

Any decent C2D mATX boards that are pretty overclockable?

Onboard video would be a plus.

Rob29 · 4 Feb 2008 at 17:19

Hi Dingleberry i have heard this one is quite good but see what others come up with.

Gigabyte Mobo

p4radox · 4 Feb 2008 at 17:48

The absolute best I believe:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-257-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=326

Tute · 4 Feb 2008 at 19:15

p4radox said:
The absolute best I believe:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-257-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=326

It is but really not worth the extra.

For Intel Core 2 E2*** and E4*** series CPUs with 800FSB, the Asus P5K-VM.

For all others, including Quads, the Gigabyte G33M-DS2R.

Vegetarian · 4 Feb 2008 at 20:55

Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H Is not a bad clocker - you should get 3 - 3.2gig no problem with E2*** chips. You can lock ram at 800mhz and adjust FSB to anything you want.

V|per · 4 Feb 2008 at 21:36

Tute said:
It is but really not worth the extra.

For Intel Core 2 E2*** and E4*** series CPUs with 800FSB, the Asus P5K-VM.

For all others, including Quads, the Gigabyte G33M-DS2R.

If i was fast enough, exactly what i would have said

g33m-ds2r for me anyways

Dingleberry88 · 4 Feb 2008 at 22:30

Vegetarian said:
Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H Is not a bad clocker - you should get 3 - 3.2gig no problem with E2*** chips. You can lock ram at 800mhz and adjust FSB to anything you want.

I have that already - in my HTPC. It's not bad, but I want more options other that just FSB and voltage.

Cheers for the other suggestions everyone. I'll have a closer look at them.

Vegetarian · 4 Feb 2008 at 23:04

Dingleberry88 said:
I have that already - in my HTPC. It's not bad, but I want more options other that just FSB and voltage.

Cheers for the other suggestions everyone. I'll have a closer look at them.

Do you Press F1 in bios to unlock advanced mode for things like memory timings n what not?

Dingleberry88 · 4 Feb 2008 at 23:27

Vegetarian said:
Do you Press F1 in bios to unlock advanced mode for things like memory timings n what not?

Just tried it - all it does is bring up a help menu... :confused:

Edit: Ah, CTRL+F1

All it seems to do is unlock memory timings though.

C4EVA · 4 Feb 2008 at 23:34

Try [Control] F1

**EDIT**
Beaten :-(

Vegetarian · 5 Feb 2008 at 08:13

Dingleberry88 said:
Just tried it - all it does is bring up a help menu...

Edit: Ah, CTRL+F1

All it seems to do is unlock memory timings though.

There are a few other stuff there too....The bios has all you need for a stable overclock! Only thing really missing is ram voltage adjustments... theres a new F5 bios out - will check it out this weekend.

Dingleberry88 · 5 Feb 2008 at 09:39

Vegetarian said:
There are a few other stuff there too....The bios has all you need for a stable overclock! Only thing really missing is ram voltage adjustments... theres a new F5 bios out - will check it out this weekend.

Hmmm... I'll have to have a proper play around with it - I've only managed 2.2GHz @ 1.35v with an E2140 so far. :/

The only difference I've noticed with the F5 BIOS is my HDD activity light now works.

Dingleberry88 · 5 Feb 2008 at 13:49

This any good: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-007-EA&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=326

?

G_Wizz · 5 Feb 2008 at 15:00

There is only one choice really; Gigabyte G33M-DS2R

Someone at XS got over 600FSB from it on default voltages.

MystaEB · 5 Feb 2008 at 17:20

Got my E6850 comfortably to 3.7 on my G33M-DS2R. Been meaning to try to push it further when I get more time.

Vegetarian · 5 Feb 2008 at 19:38

Dingleberry88 said:
Hmmm... I'll have to have a proper play around with it - I've only managed 2.2GHz @ 1.35v with an E2140 so far. :/

The only difference I've noticed with the F5 BIOS is my HDD activity light now works.

Thats not good! Try setting memory to "Unlinked" - this overclocks FSB without touching memory clock. I get higher CPU clocks with this!

Dingleberry88 · 5 Feb 2008 at 19:42

Vegetarian said:
Try setting memory to "Unlinked" - this overclocks FSB without touching memory clock. I get higher CPU clocks with this!

That was the first thing I did. Gonna have a play about with it in a bit and see what I can get out of it.

WJA96 · 5 Feb 2008 at 21:16

Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=290512

It's a brilliant board.

Dingleberry88 · 5 Feb 2008 at 21:24

Nice! What voltage is that?

WJA96 · 5 Feb 2008 at 21:29

Dingleberry88 said:
Nice! What voltage is that?

It was about 1.35V I think. The trick to that motherboard is having fast RAM - that stuff was only PC5300, but it clocked a little. With Ballistix I'm certain 3.6GHz would have been possible as the CPU is certainly good for it.

If you need the missing RAM voltage adjustment, then the EVGA 630OC has it, and pretty much everything else you want in the way of adjustments.