Pictures
First a picture of the neat little plastic box that OcUK ship the CPU in
Well that's enough of the close up pictures, here are few shots of the kit installed in the OcUK Tornado case.
So having seen what it looks like what sort of speeds can we get from this demon overclocking package ?, Well to answer that I had to get Windows installed on the supplied 46.6GB IBM GXP75 drive and set it all up with the Via 4in1 drivers and the latest Nvidia Drivers, to add into the mix I put a Geforce 2 Ultra and a Soundblaster Live sound card along with a Pioneer 105S DVD ROM drive
I went the conservative route, I installed Windows 98 SE at the default setting of 1200Mhz, with the memory timings all at the bios default settings, it all went smoothly, and I soon had it all up and running,
I used Windows 98 SE and along with the Via 4in 4.28 drivers, and Nvidia Detonator 6.50, once all that was installed I put the usual benchmark programs in, first off with WCPUID
There are a number of different ways to achieve 1400Mhz on this board, the one which I chose was to run the FSB and memory at 133Mhz, this resulted in just short of 1400Mhz, 1397Mhz to be precise. The WCPUID is very handy to check on FSB speeds and all manner of other things, I used the latest version 3.0 beta.
For the Sandra benchmarks I used the latest version Sandra 7.33 this has a 1.6GHz Pentium 4 system as a reference system, so it's interesting to see how the Athlon Thunderbird at 1.4GHz performs against it
The Athlon Thunderbird again shows it massive floating point power, beating the 1.6GHz P4 in all the benchmarks.
This is the biggest hard drive I've yet installed used in a computer, in my own I have two of the 30Gb IBM GXP drives, OcUK supplied this bundle with the 46.6Gb IBM GXP 75, this proved to benchmarks slightly quicker than the 30Gb version of the drive, it got over 24,000 in the Sandra benchmark, the screen shot below illustrates it better. That's one very quick hard drive. The KT7A RAID motherboard supplied obviously has the onboard raid controller, so it would be possible to put a RAID 0 Array on the board, this would result in even quicker performance, but as it is with just one 46Gb IBM drive, it is already very fast.
