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ASUS Secretly Overclocking Motherboards?
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.
that my p4 warranty is void?
I Predict A Riot
I have an Abit Motherboard and it was 202Mhz by default but claimed to be 200Mhz.
Wait, so on one hand, the overclocking doens't provide a measurable speed increase for games. But then somehow it *does* make a measurable difference in benchmarks.
You're forgetting how they do motherboard benching. The differences are usually so small that even a tiny leap in performance *looks* big on the graphs, when really it's not.
The funny thing is, all people care about is the look of a graph, not its actual content.
The good thing about game benchmarks is that FPS is a pretty tangible thing to people. When something is 3 or 5 FPS slower than something else, that's a HUGE noticeable difference.
I know the statement I made sounded contradictory, but it's really not.
About the 60Hz hum... it was MEANT to be silly. The thing is, your statements about chips being run 2 MHz out of spec is even sillier!
2 MHz on an 800 MHz front side bus is 0.25% out of "spec." If you look at the chip specifications for *any* of the chips on the board you'll see clearly laid out in their specifications they they are generally rated to run at what the spceifications say plus and minus 5% (usually the norm, but it ranges anywhere from 1-15 or so).
You obviously have no understanding of the manufacturing process, or how these things are made. You see they have to spec them for the lowest common denominator, at negative 65 degrees celcius AND plus 70 degrees (storage temps usually range from -65 to +150 celcius).
When you select a board from a company that uses the reject parts you get equipment that you definitely don't want to operate outside of the norm, but if you spend a little extra on something with decent componentry 0.25% is nothing at all.
And that's just for front side bus, if this is CPU overclocking we're talking it's closer to 0.05%.
The actual operating speed of your processor probably varies that much in any given day just through heat and other factors!
Seriously before you whip out some "faraday cage" science just to sound like you know what you're talking about, you should really think about what you're saying.
The thing you're pissed at is that you don't work for ASUS, you work for some other "chip manufacturer" and you're obviously biased on the subject.