Overclocking and usage notes
Overclocking wise, I was keen to see if the DFI, with its chipset voltage adjust and generous front side bus range, would be any better than my previous AMD overclocking favourite, the Leadtek.
The CPU was a different XP3200+ example than before, with the original one not surviving an accident involving an Asetek freezer. So using a new one (thanks AMD), a simple Spire air cooler, some lax timings on the Corsair (2.5-4-4-8), 1.85V Vcore, 2.9V Vdimm and 1.6V Vddq (chipset voltage), I dropped the multiplier down to 9.5x and upped the bus speed a notch or two at a time.
3 Pifast runs in a row and a run of 3DMark 2001SE's Nature test was used for quick stability verification. The final bus speed obtained was a heady 242MHz (2.3GHz), much the same as the Leadtek. With similar cooling and voltage ranges, along with an identical chipset stepping, it was nice to see. That's the only overclocking I tried due to time constraints, your mileage my vary with a retail sample of course.
