Test: Biostar x58 T-Power overclocking

 

 

 

System

 

Biostar X58 T-Power

Intel I7 965 EE

3x1gb Cellshock Pc 1440

1200w Silverstone Olympia

2x32gb OCZ SSD

2x Ati Radeon HD 4870x2

Single Stage

 

 

 

  

I was so lucky in getting to try biostar X58 board. Put everything together and started installing OS. Started on air, as I knew this I7 965 could bench 3800 MHz on an earlier Gigabyte board . I thought I'd start there. Started to get frustrated as I could only get around 3600 MHz. Hmm, I thought. This cant be, so I started from scratch. To my surprise, putting all volts on standard, and tuning slowly upwards, I managed to get this 965 up to 4200 MHz. So, first lesson learnt. Slow on the volts. Heres a few pictures from the bios. More detailed specs on the board can be found here  http://hwt.dk/literaturedetails.aspx?TeaserID=9497

 

 

 

 

What i found intresting in the bios, was that memory timings can be set individually. Nice feature there Biostar.

The most tweaking is done in the O:N:E section, here you can adjust all voltages and tweak ram timmings. Talking about voltages, this

board has plenty values to choose from, so no restrictions there.

After installing all the bench programs and a few tweaks, it was time to put on my vapo (single stage compressor).

 

 

 

In addition, here is the setup with single stage, set and ready. Isolation here is a big factor. Don't want any condens around the mb or cpu.

 

Booted straight off 4200 MHz. Last settings in bios. Testing stability here, before we go further. I was informed this cpu was not the best oc, as its one of the very first batches.

It seems to be doing ok so far. If I can get to bench 4400-4600, that would be great.

 

Software used to benchmark is:

 

3Dmark 03

3Dmark 05

3Dmark 06

Cpu-z

Wprime

Super PI

 

Started out with superpi , managed to get a stable 32m with all cores and Hyper Threading enabled at 4495mhz, which gave 9m41.063s

 

 

 

Wprime did quite well too, placed quite well on hbot.

 

 

 

 

 

3Dmark 03 Single and cfx scores

 

 

 

05 single and cfx