200MHz FSB Tests

     The nice thing about the Soltek nForce2 motherboard, as well as many other nForce2 motherboards, is that you no longer have to manually unlock the CPU to do your overclocking. The bios has a setting to lock or unlock the CPU and you have full control of the CPU multiplier and bus speed right from the bios. This feature has just saved us Overclockers many hours of work unlocking CPUs!

     For the next test, I bumped the bus speed up to 200MHz and dropped the multiplier down to 11x. This gives us a little higher CPU speed than default (2200MHz). Just to remind you from the last review, the ABIT NF7-S v1.0 would not overclock over 180MHz FSB. Now with the Soltek 75FRN-L, things have changed for the better!

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CPUID

Sandra CPU Benchmark

Sandra Multimedia Benchmark

Sandra Memory Benchmark

RC5-72 Benchmark - 6,813,047 keys/sec

     As you can clearly see, running on a 200MHz bus gives the CPU a HUGE boost in performance! As with going from 133MHz FSB to 166MHz, we get another 500+ point increase going from 166MHz to 200MHz FSB!

     I would like mention that the Soltek motherboard was the first nForce2 motherboard out of 3 brands that was able to take this CPU up to 200MHz FSB at DEFAULT VOLTAGE AND AT ULTRA AGGRESSIVE MEMORY TIMINGS! That's right, no voltage tweaks were needed at all and the machine was 100% stable, even under Unreal Tournament 2003! Very impressive... Okay, this baby will do 200MHz FSB, but where does this CPU peak out at? Let's find out...