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Experience the Roller Coaster: MSI P35 Platinum Mainboard Review (page 7)

Category: Mainboards

by Doors4ever

[ 07/06/2007 | 04:52 PM ]

Overclocking

MSI prepared a special two-page illustrated overclocking guide on their company web-site for those users who purchased their new MSI P35 Platinum mainboard. This guide is called “How to Overclock P35 Platinum?”. Summing up, they recommend raising all voltages that can be adjusted. Our tests showed that the processor voltage is not the only important voltage setting on MSI P35 Platinum. Significant increase in the NB voltage is another critical parameter for successful overclocking on MSI P35 Platinum. And, of course, you shouldn’t also forget about the memory voltage.

Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 processor we used for our tests can overclock to 490MHz FSB with the Vcore raised to 1.45V. MSI P35 Platinum mainboard increases the processor voltage, so we only had to set CPU Vcore to 1.425V.

However, when it came to chipset North Bridge voltage, we had to push it to 1.55V, otherwise the system wouldn’t pass the tests. So, the advanced cooling system of our MSI P35 Platinum proved very useful in this case.