Anandtech: nForce3-250 – Part 2

() [b]Anandtech: [link=http://www.anandtech.com/chipsets/showdoc.html?i=2009]nForce3-250 - Part 2: Taking Athlon 64 to the Next Level [/link][/b] [blockquote]As normally done in our testing of production motherboards, we ran a full range of stress tests and benchmarks on the nForce3-250Gb Reference Board to test stability at an overclocked speed. This included Prime95 torture tests, and the addition of other tasks - data compression, various DX8 and DX9 games, and apps like Word and Excel - while Prime95 was running in the background. Finally, we ran our benchmark suite, which includes ZD Winstone suite, Unreal Tournament 2003, SPECviewperf 7.0, and Gun Metal Benchmark 2. [b]At default voltage, 249MHz was the highest overclock that we were able to achieve with the nForce3-250Gb and the HyperTransport setting reduced to 4X or 800 (Actual 996 at 249FSB)[/b] while running these tests.[/blockquote] [link=http://www.anandtech.com/chipsets/showdoc.html?i=2009]More here[/link]

March 29, 2004 7:19 AM ET in News,

[b]Anandtech: [link=http://www.anandtech.com/chipsets/showdoc.html?i=2009]nForce3-250 – Part 2: Taking Athlon 64 to the Next Level [/link][/b]

[blockquote]As normally done in our testing of production motherboards, we ran a full range of stress tests and benchmarks on the nForce3-250Gb Reference Board to test stability at an overclocked speed. This included Prime95 torture tests, and the addition of other tasks – data compression, various DX8 and DX9 games, and apps like Word and Excel – while Prime95 was running in the background. Finally, we ran our benchmark suite, which includes ZD Winstone suite, Unreal Tournament 2003, SPECviewperf 7.0, and Gun Metal Benchmark 2. [b]At default voltage, 249MHz was the highest overclock that we were able to achieve with the nForce3-250Gb and the HyperTransport setting reduced to 4X or 800 (Actual 996 at 249FSB)[/b] while running these tests.[/blockquote]
[link=http://www.anandtech.com/chipsets/showdoc.html?i=2009]More here[/link]