As we’re dealing with the Asus BIOS that I’m so familiar with, it was a breeze to overclock on this board as it was all positioned how I expected it to be. This made things very easy and only a few options needed to be changed to hit 4.6GHz which consisted mainly of raising the multiplier and added a few more volts to the VCore.
Not happy with reaching just 4.6GHz, we wanted to see how much further things could go. We continued to raise the multiplier, but 48 seemed to be the limit, but things sadly weren’t 100% stable. Not being beaten we decided to drop the multiplier back down slightly and to raise the bus speed.
To gain a 100% stable overclock, we found that the voltage had to be increased by quite large amounts, once we’d done so, we managed to hit 4.8GHz using 126.4×38 and we were able to boot into Windows and make sure that things were 100% stable by use of Prime95.
It is worth noting that these processors shouldn’t be pushed above 1.525v ideally, but we had sufficient cooling. It’s also worth noting that the reason we had to pump so many volts through is because our CPU is an early revision and the later retail units should overclock slightly better.
Nice review. Too bad there is no z68 version of this board. The only negative thing is probably the fact that it will be hard to find a buyer for this mb once you decide to upgrade because this style is really not for everyone.
As you stated Asus are making quite a few boards, I agree that this board may not be for everyone, but the fact is that it is there if you require it, I am afraid that any of the top end boards that Asus produce are out of my price range, but if you can afford it and this is just what you require, then go for it. It all really depends on the end user, once again Andy nice review.
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