Barbarian
08-20-2005, 01:28 PM
http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?location=3&var1=249&var2=0
Asus is cheating in motherboard benchmarks:
- The "Auto" setting of the clock actually is overclocked. There is no way to get the rated FSB speed, the only way is to set the FSB 1 mhz lower and then you get below rated speed.
- They are messing with the memory timings. You set 4-4-4-12, they use 4-3-3-8. This is a big deal if you buy memory for overclock, because you're going to set MORE aggressive timings and ASUS boards will crank it up even more than you want.
- PEG-Link, http://www.rojakpot.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=24 8, is automatic graphics card overclocking. Fine if you want to use it, but you have to set "Slow" if you want regular speeds. "Normal" and "Auto" are actually overclocked.
Do these items make a big difference in performance? The CPU is probably only slight. With the memory and graphics card overclock, probably 5%. Fine if you want to do it, but the purpose seems to be to mess with benchmarks. Most people benchmarking boards for reviews set everything to Normal as a baseline. Thus, the ASUS boards automatically appear to be better from the start.
As a comparison, on Gigabyte boards, there is a setting "Top Performance," which will do this too. However it is off by default, and the manual clearly explains what it does.
Asus is cheating in motherboard benchmarks:
- The "Auto" setting of the clock actually is overclocked. There is no way to get the rated FSB speed, the only way is to set the FSB 1 mhz lower and then you get below rated speed.
- They are messing with the memory timings. You set 4-4-4-12, they use 4-3-3-8. This is a big deal if you buy memory for overclock, because you're going to set MORE aggressive timings and ASUS boards will crank it up even more than you want.
- PEG-Link, http://www.rojakpot.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=24 8, is automatic graphics card overclocking. Fine if you want to use it, but you have to set "Slow" if you want regular speeds. "Normal" and "Auto" are actually overclocked.
Do these items make a big difference in performance? The CPU is probably only slight. With the memory and graphics card overclock, probably 5%. Fine if you want to do it, but the purpose seems to be to mess with benchmarks. Most people benchmarking boards for reviews set everything to Normal as a baseline. Thus, the ASUS boards automatically appear to be better from the start.
As a comparison, on Gigabyte boards, there is a setting "Top Performance," which will do this too. However it is off by default, and the manual clearly explains what it does.