general ease of use which has made
it one of my favorites if not my favorite
Mini-ITX board ever. This is despite
not featuring basic requirements for
an OC board (which it is not, hence the
‘Gaming’) such as POST code display.
To test this difference between
AUTO configuration settings and
manually tuned memory, the DRAM
was overclocked to 4500MT/s, again
testament to just how proficient this
board is at memory overclocking. As
you’d expect, the primary settings
were fixed to 18-18-18-39 at 1.45v. All
other settings such as RTL and IOL
(outside of the ones being investigated)
would be left to the motherboard’s
AUTO rules. By tuning just, the
secondary and tertiary timings I
could operate the DRAM at the ‘safe’
operating voltages.
For the sake of verifying reliability,
the OC settings were tested with Karhu
software’s RAM Test 1.1 with 7,000%
+ coverage. Do consider this software
for DRAM stability testing. Not only can
it test the DRAM, but place load on the
CPU memory sub system to improve
testing time and expose instability in
your NB clock for instance.
PERFORMANCE RESULTS
& CONCLUSION
As you can see from the results,
not every benchmark responds in a
meaningful way to the tuning. Again it
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