Taking into account everything mentioned above, the overclocking friendly settings offered by the DFI LanParty UT RDX200 CF-DR mainboard can be considered very rich. And the supported maximum voltage settings should be more than enough to satisfy even the most demanding overclockers. However, this is not all yet. I would like to specifically stress that there are a lot of settings for memory subsystem configuring, which is an indisputable advantage of the DFI LanParty UT RDX200 CF-DR mainboard.

The corresponding page of the BIOS Setup contains the whole list of settings similar to what a popular A64 Tweaker tool would offer. Of course, this long list of parameters and settings may easily scare away an unsophisticated user, however, all of these parameters may as well be adjusted in automatic mode: each of them may be set to Auto. It is very nice that the BIOS Setup supports higher memory frequency coefficients. You can set the memory to work in DDR400, DDR433, DDR466 or DDR500 SDRAM mode even without any CPU overclocking.

All in all, the overclocking friendly options offered in the BIOS Setup of our DFI LanParty UT RDX200 CF-DR mainboard are quite impressive. However, we decided we should really check these things out in real life. For our overclocking experiments we assembled a system on DFI LanParty UT RDX200 CF-DR mainboard with an AMD Athlon 64 3800+ processor on Venice core. First of all we decided to find out the maximum clock generator frequency when the mainboard remains stable. Therefore, we reduced the CPU clock frequency multiplier to 6x and dropped the memory frequency down a little bit, so that the potential of the mainboard itself could be the only limiting factor during our overclocking attempts. Moreover, the increase in the clock generator frequency sometimes requires lower HyperTransport multipliers. So we set it to 3x right away.

As our tests showed, DFI LanParty UT RDX200 CF-DR can easily compete with the best NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra/SLI based mainboards in terms of clock generator frequency increase. The maximum frequency when our mainboard would boot-up and function without any problems was 370MHz. Note that this is a very high result, and it is very unlikely to find practical application in real life conditions. But in this case our experiment indicates clearly that DFI LanParty UT RDX200 CF-DR has great stability reserves for overclocking.

DFI LanParty UT RDX200 CF-DR didn’t disappoint us throughout the entire overclocking test session. It worked stably with overclocked memory, which we checked by raising its frequency to 305MHz synchronously with the clock frequency generator. Here we used OCZ EL DDR PC-4800 Dual Channel Platinum memory modules with 2.8V voltage.

I have to stress that 305MHz memory frequency was taken just as an example, and is certainly not the maximum that can be achieved.