3.0E GHZ PENTIUM 4 & ABIT AI7
e got a glimpse of what the Pentium 4's new Prescott core is capable of in the previous case study. On a modest Biostar P4TSV using Intel's 865G chipset, we were able to increase the clock speed on our 3.0E GHz Pentium 4 to 3.39GHz. Now it's time to see how well the processor performs on a high-end ABIT board with an Intel 865PE chipset.

System Specs

Processor, Motherboard & Drivers Processor 3.0E GHz Pentium 4 (Prescott) Motherboard ABIT AI7 BIOS Manufacturer Phoenix BIOS Version 13 Chipset Driver 5.02.1003 Common Components RAM DDR SDRAM (2 x 512MB) Video Gainward PowerPack! Ultra/1800 XP Golden Sample (GeForce FX 5950 Ultra) Hard Drive 80GB Western Digital WD800JD 7,200rpm SATA Heatsink Thermalright SLK-948U CPU Fan pcToys 92mm Tornado CD-ROM LiteOn Black 48X/24X/48X/16X DVD/CD-RW Floppy Samsung 1.44MB Power Supply Antec 430W TruePower Case Antec PLUS1080AMG Temperature Monitor MacPower Digital Doc 5
Motherboard This time, we'll be running our 3.0 E GHz Prescott on an ABIT AI7. The ABIT board does a better job of targeting the enthusiast crowd and catering to overclockers. Instead of the Intel 865G, the AI7 relies on the Intel 865PE chipset. The major difference between the two chipsets is that the 865PE lacks an integrated video chip. On the surface, this may seem to be an advantage for the 865G, but few enthusiasts are going to settle for Intel's integrated graphics chip. As a result, most 865G boards are aimed at a lower segment of the market. Intel considers the 865PE to be a midlevel chipset but it's actually quite popular
the next case study, however, PAT may not always be worth the premium price you pay for most 875P motherboards, especially considering some manufacturers enable PAT on 865PE motherboards. Intel, however, warns that enabling PAT on 865PE motherboards could damage the chipset or lead to stability issues. As we mentioned, the AI7 is one of the more expensive 865PE motherboards. One reason for the AI7's higher price is the ICH5R southbridge chipset. As you can probably guess, the "R" stands for "RAID" and the ICH5R supports both RAID 0 (stripping) and RAID 1 (mirroring). As we've come to expect from most motherboards, the ABIT AI7 does come with integrated audio and Ethernet. A Realtek ALC658 chip provides integrated six-channel audio, automatic jack sensing, and SPDIF output. An additional Realtek Ethernet controller provides integrated 10/100 Ethernet connectivity. The AI7 supports eight USB 2.0 ports and three FireWire ports. Unlike the earlier Biostar board, the AI7 also features more room for
3Dmark03 and PCMark04 scores. While the 6539 3Dmark03 score was 9points better than the P4TSV managed at 3GHz, some PCMark04 scores were down slightly. The overall PCMark04 score fell from 4829 in the previous case study to 4823. The PCMark04 CPU score fell from 4611 to 4587. Other PCMark04 scores, however, were a little better than the baseline scores posted by P4TSV. The Memory score increased from 4914 to 4931, the Graphics score increased from 5384 to 5408, and the
3.0E GHz Pentium 4 ABIT AI7
Stock Performance Overclocked Performance Processor Speed 3GHz 3.46GHz FSB 200MHz 230MHz Multiplier Voltage 1.3875 1.6125 Processor Case Temp Temp 40.6 30.5 44.2 30.7 3Dmark03 PCMark5499 PCMark04 PCMark04 PCMark04 PCMark04 CPU Memory Graphics HDD 5563 4312

with enthusiasts because it provides excellent performance for the price. Like Intel's high-end 875P chipset, the 865PE supports an 800MHz FSB and dual-channel memory. Intel's PAT (Performance Acceleration Technology) comes enabled by default on 875P chipsets. According to Intel, PAT reduces memory latency by as much as two clock cycles when used with PC3200 DDR SDRAM. As you'll see in
expansion. In addition to the requisite AGP slot, the AI7 features five PCI slots that should provide adequate expansion options even if you have to install PCIbased replacements for the integrated audio and sound. Overclocking Before we started messing around with the BIOS settings, we took some baseline
HDD score increased from 4243 to 4296. When idle, our 3.0E GHz Prescott's temperature was 33.3 degrees Celsius, about 0.6 C cooler than it was on the P4TSV board. The AI7, however, provides a slightly higher current (1.385V compared to 1.35V) and the processor proved slightly warmer under load. On the AI7, our Prescott's temperature reached 40.6 C, about 1.9 C warmer than the initial
load temperature in our last case study. Under load, the ambient case temperature reached 30.5 C. After recording our initial scores, we accessed the system's setup utility by pressing DEL during POST. Overclocking options were found in the SoftMenu Setup section. We increased the FSB by highlighting CPU Operating Speed and using PAGE UP and PAGE DOWN to adjust the value to 210MHz (you can probably argue that this item is mislabeled since it measures the FSB rather than the processor's clock speed). We then saved the settings and exited the Setup utility. After rebooting we had turned our 3GHz processor into a 3.16GHz P4. The increased speed added 60 points to our 3Dmark03 score. This was actually 7 points lower than the 6606 score we managed on the P4TSV at this speed. We increased the clock speed another 10MHz to 220MHz, resulting in a 3.30GHz P4. Once again, the speed boost netted a significant 3Dmark03 improvement. Scores rose to 6663, which was just slightly better than the P4TSV managed at this speed. The P4TSV only allowed us to increase the FSB speed to 225MHz before the system refused to boot. We increased the AI7 to 230MHz to see what would happen and were delighted to learn the AI7 ran reliably at 230MHz. The resulting 3.46GHz P4 ran perfectly and managed to complete 3Dmark03 with a 6697 score. Increasing the FSB another 10MHz prevented the system from even booting. We decided to taper our ambitions a bit and reduce the clock speed to 235MHz. When the system still refused to boot, we decreased the clock speed to 232MHz and this time the system booted properly, but 3Dmark03 crashed midtest, suggesting the system wasn't entirely stable. We decreased the FSB again to 231MHz, but 3Dmark03 was still unsuccessful. We returned our system to 230MHz and increased the processor's core voltage by selecting CPU Power

We left the FSB at 232MHz and increased the voltage to 1.6125V, but still couldn't get the system to complete 3Dmark03. Decreasing the FSB to 231MHz didn't help our stability problems. We had some concerns that the 1.6125V core voltage might be a little high, so we left the core voltage intact and reduced the FSB to 230MHz. The system was not only still reliable at 230MHz, but it yielded a 6726 3Dmark03 score, the highest score we had yet received. Increasing the processor's voltage further didn't allow us ATX PSU Ethernet BIOS Connector Controller to push FSB speeds any higher. We reset the core voltage to Audio Codec Southbridge 1.6125V and the FSB to (Intel ICH5R) Northbridge (865PE) SATA Connectors 230MHz to run PCMark04. The overall PCMark04 score increased significantly from 4823 to 5499. The CPU score itself increased almost 700 points to 5257 while the Memory score increased more than 700 points to 5659. The Graphics score showed the least improvement but still went up more than Supply in the SoftMenu Setup section of 150 points to 5563. The HDD score, typithe setup utility. We used PAGE UP to cally, showed little improvement at 4312. select User Defined and then adjusted the Final Word CPU Core Voltage to 1.4375V. The extra Looking at the Biostar P4TSV and the power actually seemed to make things ABIT AI7, you can see why we wanted to worse as 3Dmark03 crashed at 230MHz. run the same processor on multiple mothWe increased the core voltage once again to erboards. The ABIT AI7 proved to be a 1.5125V. This increase resulted in much better motherboard for overclockimproved stability and a better 3Dmark03 ing as we were able to reach speeds of score of 6717. 3.46GHz. We increased the FSB to 232MHz, but Our 1.6125V CPU voltage may be a once again the benchmark crashed on us. bit drastic. There's some speculation that Prescott could be sensitive to increased Overclock Comparison voltage and some motherboard manufac3Dmark03 turers have gone so far as to prevent end users from adjusting the CPU voltage. ABIT AI7 Over the short term, we didn't seem to Stock Performance 6539 Overclocked Performance 6726 have any problems at 1.6125V and temperatures increased only 3.6 degrees (less EPoX EP-4PCA3+ than the total increase in our last case Stock Performance 6535 Overclocked Performance 6721 study), but that's not to say that problems couldn't develop over time. Biostar P4TSV
Stock Performance Overclocked Performance 6530 6687

by Chad Denton

Manufacturer Abit

Motherboard IS7-V

Version 13

Date Available 2/27/04

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IC7-MAX3

AX4PER-GN

3/12/04

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AK86-L

3/11/04

AK79D-400VN

MX4SG-4DL

MX4SG-4DN

MX46-800N

3/10/04

MK89-L

3/7/04

MX4SGVI-4DN2

3/6/04

Fixes "On-Chip Frame Buffer Size" setting error Fixes wake from S1 with some DDR266

AX45F-4DL

2/29/04

MX4SGI-4DL2

2/26/04
Fixes Prescott CPU ratio adjustment

MX4SGI-4DN2

AX4SPE Max II

2/25/04

Patch that WatchDog and HomeKey can not work properly
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AX4C Max

Fixes SATA HDD RAID 1 degradation issue

AX4SG Max II

AX45-8X Max

MK77M-8XN

2/20/04

P4P800 SE

3/1/04

Asus Asus

P4P800-VM P4R800-VM

1009 1003

2/10/04 3/10/04

P4P800S

P4P800S SE

P4S800

3/4/04
P4C800-E DELUXE P4C800 DELUXE

P4C800

P4R800-V DELUXE P4V533-MX K8NHA-M 7VJL5

3/2/04

Asus Biostar Chinatech Epox

1009 NHA0302 3.0

2/24/04 3/2/04 2/13/04
8RDA3+ / 8RDA3G 8RD34212. 2/12/04 BIN (6600)
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8RDA3 / 8RDAE / 8RDA3I

RDA34212. 2/12/04 BIN (2700)
8RDA+ 8RDA4212. BIN (FD00)

2/12/04

8RD14212. 2/12/04 BIN (0500)
8RGA4212. 2/12/04 BIN (9F00)
8RG14212. 2/12/04 BIN (0400)
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8RGM4212. 2/12/04 BIN (A400)

8RGM2I

RGM24302. 3/2/04 BIN(1C00)
8KRA4212. 2/12/04 BIN (E700) P4MA4302. 3/2/04 BIN(B800) P4MD4302. 3/2/04 BIN(E500) F6 3/10/04

P4MKI-S

Fixes system hang when modem is used, can http://www.epox.nl/english/support/bios/pen boot from HDD partitions over 30GB tium4.htm Provides 2T timing setup item http://tw.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS _GA-K8VT800%20Pro.htm http://tw.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS _GA-K8VT800.htm http://tw.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS _GA-K8VNXP.htm http://tw.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS _GA-8IG1000MK.htm http://tw.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS _GA-8IG1000MF-P.htm http://tw.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS _GA-8IG1000-G.htm http://tw.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS _GA-8IG1000%20Pro-G.htm http://tw.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS _GA-8IG1000%20(Rev%203.0).htm http://tw.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS _GA-8IE2004P-L.htm http://tw.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS _GA-8GE800.htm http://tw.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS _GA-8GE800%20PRO.htm http://tw.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS _GA-8I848E.htm http://tw.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS _GA-8I848E-L.htm http://tw.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS _GA-8I848P.htm http://tw.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS _GA-8I848P-L.htm http://tw.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS _GA-8I865GVMK.htm http://tw.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Support/BIOS/BIOS _GA-8I875.htm

Gigabyte

GA-K8VT800 Pro

GA-K8VT800

Provides 2T timing setup item

GA-K8VNXP

Provides 2T timing setup item, supports K8 Cool 'n Quiet Supports frequency locked Prescott CPU for FMB1.5 design Supports frequency locked Prescott CPU for FMB1.5 design Supports frequency locked Prescott CPU for FMB1.5 design Supports frequency locked Prescott CPU for FMB1.5 design Supports frequency locked Prescott CPU for FMB1.5 design Fixes ability to boot in low temperature with some DIMMs Updates microcode

GA-8VD667K

GA-7N400
Fixes booting with Kingmax and Kingston DDR, fixes booting with Quantum HDD

GA-7N400 Pro

GA-7N400 Pro2

GA-7N400E

GA-7N400E-L

GA-7N400-L

GA-7N400-L1

GA-7NNXP

GA-7VT600

GA-7VT600-L

GA-7N400 Pro2 (Rev 2.0) D865GRH

2/18/04

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Intel Intel Intel

D845EPI D845FVSR D845GBF

P10 P10 P14

3/1/04 3/1/04 2/18/04

D845GLC

D845GLVA D845PBZ D865GVHZ

P10 P22 P14

3/1/04 2/24/04 2/18/04

MSI MSI MSI MSI

KM4AM-L (MS6734) KT6_Delta-FIS2R KT6_Delta-LSR 661FM-L

3.2 5.5 5.5 3.4

3/8/04 2/25/04 2/25/04 3/5/04

MSI MSI

845GV/GL/PE (MS- 4.2 6714v4) 845PE_Neo-L 7.1

3/5/04 2/16/04

848P_Neo-LS

2/11/04

Supports Prescott 3/3.2GHz CPU and updates CPU microcode, fixes power button wake from S1 under Win2000, other fixes Updates CPU microcode
http://www.msicomputer.com/support/bios_ result.asp
MSI MSI MSI MSI MSI MSI MSI
865G Neo2-S(MS- 2.1 6728G) 865PE_Neo22.1 FIS2R 865PE_Neo2-LS 2.1 865PE_Neo2-S 865PM2 (MS6743P) 875P Neo(MS6758) PT880_Neo-LSR 2.1 7.2 2.0 1.2
2/20/04 2/20/04 2/20/04 2/20/04 2/17/04 2/11/04 2/20/04
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Shuttle

AV49P/N

AV49PS06 2/17/04

MT63S00S 3/15/04

AN50S025 2/18/04

Shuttle Soltek
MN31L SL-86SPE/SL86SPE-L SL-B7A-F
MN31LS06 2/17/04 AM1.4L 3/15/04

Soltek Soltek

3/15/04 3/11/04
SL-865-R/SL-865- AS1.3 GR SL-B6A-F1000 SL-B6A-F800 SL-B8E-F SL-PT880E-RL K1.1 K1.1 AX1.5F P1.3RL

Soltek Soltek Soltek Soltek
3/11/04 3/11/04 3/4/04 3/1/04

Soltek

SL-PT880Pro-FGR M1.1

Soyo Tyan

K8USA Dragon Ultra Black Label Tiger i7501X (S3022)

2AA3 2.04

3/15/04 3/1/04
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