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OC Guru
One
of the best features of the AA8 DuraMAX is the OC Guru in the bios.
Overclocking has never been so easy! All the overclocking settings are
right here in one screen. You can even tweak your DDR2 speed with the
DRAM Frequency ratio setting. And yes, the ratio setting works flawless,
unlike many other motherboards out there with similar features.
Test System
We
are just about ready for the testing, but let's go over the basics of the test system first.
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Hardware |
Model |
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Motherboard: |
ABIT AA8 Duramax |
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CPU: |
Intel Pentium 4
3.0GHz
LGA-775 |
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Video Card: |
ABIT Radeon RX600XT-PCIE |
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Video Card Driver Version: |
CATALYST Windows XP 4.9 |
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Memory: |
Crucial Ballistix PC5300 |
Testing
First we'll begin with some basic motherboard, CPU and memory tests
using SiSoft Sandra.
CPU Arithmetic
Benchmark
CPU Multi-Media
Benchmark
Memory Bandwidth
Benchmark
So
far, the default benchmarks have been much better than previous i915 motherboards.
Even the DDR2 memory performs great at a ratio of 2:3.
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