Review Date: 9th June 2002 Reviewed By: Michael "Hughesey" Hughes Product: DFI NB70-SC Intel 845 Motherboard Rating: 88% Manufacturer: DFI Supplier: N/A

Overclocking

Heres the part you have all been waiting to hear about: The boards overclockability. Well if you like your overclocking like I do, you wont be too impressed. The board has no Vcore/Vio/Dimm voltage adjustments, greatly limiting its overclockability. CPU Multiplier adjustments can be made in the bios. FSB overclocking is also controlled via the bios and one small jumper. Setting the jumper changes the overclocking range in the bios, as well as the AGP.PCI dividers. When set on Pins 1-2, the FSB selection in the bios is from 100-132mhz, with a PCI divider of 1/3, and an AGP divider of 2/3. When set to pins 2-3 the selectable frequency range SHOULD be 133-166 with PCI divider of 1/4 and AGP divider of 1/2, however on our review sample, no matter what position the jumper was in, we were not able to select > 133MHz fsb in the bios. This problem could be solved with the latest bios Update, which in our testing period, we were unable to test.

Apart from pure overclocking, there are some nice RAM timing tweaks and AGP tweaks to be found, but overall, nothing breathtakingly exciting.