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Since SF3D posted the latest Asus CIV bios on XtremeSystems, I decided to have a look inside the bios to check whether something interesting can be found in relation to the upcoming release of the Thuban series. In the past, I've done this already and it yielded me some decent results back then. This time, again, some interesting bios strings could be found. 3 things to note in this screenshot: 1) It appears that ASUS has integrated CPU multipliers upto 35X, which is higher than the current physical limitation of 31,5x 2) The DRAM frequency multipliers go up to 2000MHz, whereas the highest memory multiplier on the Deneb processors was 1600MHz ... higher memory frequencies possible? 3) ECC support (not sure whether this was already in Deneb as well, just mentioning) Especially the second point seems to be 'real' (I have no idea since I have neither the mainboard nor the CPU) since it comes back several times in the list of bios strings. Do note that there are several undocumented DRAM multipliers for the Deneb as well, but according to the mainboard manufacturers I've contacted, these were hardlocked by AMD. Given that they hardlocked it in the past, I can't imagine they wouldn't hardlock it again if the multiplier isn't supposed to be used ... so, DDR3-2000 might be a real divider? For some reason, ASUS has added bios strings for a processor package containing 8 processor cores. This might just be some leftovers from the server CPU microcode (although that would be strange), so I've got no idea what it means. Maybe I should just be optimistic and hope there will be 8-core AM3 chips in the future (Bulldozer?).

I've added the translation of the first (and biggest) file. The language will be installed as soon as possible

for Intel Core processors, XP is better than Vista

I have no problems with you not filling in all specs (although I'd prefer to see otherwise - these fields are not info for vendors, but for overclockers), but please don't flood it with 'no sponsors'. Leaving it open is good enough.

What is that for efficiency?

Haha, loving the "secret oc event" :-D

Same what I'd say when someone sold me a Porsche and sends me a Lada.

Switching to the Catalyst 10.3 drivers will give you an 800-1000 points boost with the same clocks.

Done

Do you have a fitting picture?

No ES samples allowed.

http://hwbot.org/blog/wp-content/background.png

I should really make the list of average score public, shouldn't I . What S775 platform are you thinking of? This is the higehst integrated graphics score at the moment: http://hwbot.org/community/submission/980824_msimax_3dmark_2001_radeon_hd_4290_33322_marks

Ask Microsoft

There was a bug in the limitations, I think. The graphics card is linked to the right socket in any case. Should be fixed now.

Only if Futuremark is in the know

Got this from facebook: Screenie:

1420!

That's not integrated, it's still a seperate graphics processor. GPU in NB or CPU, that's integrated. Hm, small bug it seems.

It's 'cheap-ish'. 890GX or H55 should do the trick, I think.

The question is ... what platform to choose? 890GX seems to be the obvious choice, but I think the Intel GMA HD should get pretty close.

The background has been attached to the newspost: http://hwbot.org/article/news/hwbot_oc_challenge_april_2010

He found the highest clocks in any case

Excellent benching, Ross!

http://hwbot.org/community/submission/981436_nanok_pifast_core_i7_980x_13.61_sec getting closer