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ASUS Secretly Overclocking Motherboards?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the not-so-secret-anymore dept.

Hubert writes "It seems that the motherboard manufacturing industry is getting a little bit too competitive now that ASUS and many other manufacturers are secretly tweaking and overclocking the motherboard in default BIOS settings." A front side bus that's a mere 2 MHz faster may not seem like much of a tweak, but it's just enough to gain an edge over the competition.

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  1. hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    oooo la la

  2. Computer time by wk633 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is that why my Computer's time is 5-10min fast per day? I wouldn't think the computer time would be based on the same clock that runs the instruction cycle...

    And does anyone know what I can change in the registry (XP Pro) to make it update via ntp more often?