Overclocking
We have now seen how the EPoX 8RGA+ performs at stock speeds, but this board is just crying out to be overclocked. As mentioned earlier, nearly every overclocking tool you could wish for is available in the Bios.
FSB Adjustment from 100Mhz to 250 MHz
Vcore adjustment from 1.40v to 2.20v
AGP voltage adjustment from 1.50v to 1.80v
DDR Voltage Adjustment from 2.50v to 2.90v
VDD Chipset voltage adjustment from 1.6v to 2.0v
We were able to overclock the 8RGA+ up to a front side bus speed of 220 MHz with ease. This involved reducing the XP3000+ multiplier to 11.5, and therefore generated a clock speed of 2540 MHz. We also needed to increase vcore to 1.95v, vdim to 2.9v and vdd to 1.8v. These results were obtained using moderate air cooling.
These results are really impressive and show what a little overclocking can do.
