Shuttle AN51R Review :: BIOS and Overclocking

Author: Doc Overclock · 08-10-2004 · Category: Motherboards

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Well the Award PnP BIOS to me is always the most stable and user friendly and has given the best overclocking results overall. Many options are available for the overclocker. The board features a Soft-configuration FSB (The FSB speed is software configurable from 200MHz to 280MHz in the Ratio/Voltage Control of BIOS setup program). You can see in the BIOS screen shots shown below the different variables that are available to the user for custom configuring your BIOS to its highest performance values.

AMD CPUs have always had a tendency to run hot so if you really want to do some serious overclocking make sure you purchase a top of the line cooler from Swiftech or one of the other professional thermal companies to get the best results. Liquid cooling seems to work the best and even though having water in your system may sound risky with today's technology all is safe and well. The BIOS is really only the beginning of the overclocking process as many factors will weigh in heavily on the results. Using the latest and fastest memory is especially good as it gives the user some headway when pushing the system specs past their default state. I only pushed the system by about fifteen percent before my system became unstable while using standard cooling.

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