Performance (click any image to enlarge) The Soltek K890Pro-939 is a very noble performer. We had a few issues at
first trying to overclock the thing, but after a few emails with Soltek's excellent technical support we were able to get the board to
really open up. It seems that we had tried everything, but that was
simply not the case. Lydia from Soltek explained to us that we needed to
try a few things first mainly with our memory latency settings and
voltages. The phenomenal thing about this board is that it has so much
potential that given we had the right components to really wring it out
like some decent cooling and a little bit looser memory we could have
easily gone past the 287FSB we observed by using the 166 memory divider
and a lower multiplier. Using a OEM Winchester cooler the temps were
really up there while testing under overclocked conditions so it was
really hard to place blame on the board with an average 65C temp.
Nevertheless, at the default 200fsb using 2-2-2-5
timings for our PDP XBL memory, the numbers we were getting are
phenomenal. There is no doubt about it, this is one fast board...
Our testing setup is as follows:
AMD Athlon 3500 .90nm w/ retail HSF
Apollo 6600GT PCI-E 128mb
PDP Systems Patriot XBL D.C. 2x512mb
Fortron Source AX-500A 500W PSU
2x74gb WD Raptors in RAID 0
Shuttle CR40 DVD+RWDL
200Mhz FSB 2-2-2-5
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HD Tach
Sisoft Sandra 2005 Pro
Lavalys Everest Home Edition
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