Asus Sabertooth X79 Motherboard Review
Andy Ruffell / 13 years ago
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.
