Shuttle AE23
(Intel i815EP) with an Intel PIII @ 933MHz &
1.02GHz.
256MB
of Mushkin 2-2-2 Rev. 2 RAM
Western Digital
WD300BB 30Gig ATA100 7200 RPM Hard Drive
nVidia
GeForce 2 Ultra 64MB AGP Graphics Card
Hercules Game
Theater XP
Plextor
PlexWriter 12/10/32
Pioneer
16/40 DVD Rom
Windows Millennium
Direct
X 8.0a and nVidia reference drivers V.6.50
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Over-clocking The Shuttle AE23 |
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Not too
many options... |
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Well you already
have a good idea how we feel about this board's overclocking potential, but the only true way to
know is to try. As we mentioned, this board
is documented in the manual at having adjustments
up to 166MHz bus speed but our bios options
stopped at 145MHz. With our tests there was
no problem when we zapped this board up to 145MHz.
giving us 1.02GHz. from our 933. Our only wish is
that we were able to push the envelope even more, but it
just wasn't meant to be. We feel that with a
slight bump in voltage, we should have hit a
higher clock speed with this CPU. Let's hope that Shuttle
adds voltage tweaks in a later bios revision. We used Sisoft
Sandra 2001 below so you can see just how much of
a gain can be expected by pushing the system bus to
145MHz.
CPU@933MHz
CPU@1.02GHz
MM@933MHz
MM@1.02GHz
At
both 933MHz. and 1.02GHz., our test rig performed
as expected in both CPU and Multimedia
processing tests. We really didn't expect
any big surprises here since the processor
performance should be on par with boards using
similar chipsets.
Mem@133MHz Mem@145MHz
The
memory performance of the AE23 was excellent for a
board of this class. With the bus speed
clocked at 145MHz, we came extremely close to
breaking 500 FPU. Again I must say that the
limitation of the bus speed adjustment really held
us back. Aside from that though, the memory
performance was above par compared to other i815
boards we've tested.
HD@933MHz
With
limited Bios capability, we were able to overclock
our 933MHz. processor just under 8%. The only thing
left to do is put this board to the test and see
how it fairs with some "real world" benchmarking
utilities. For a
comparison, all of the AE23's benchmarks were
compared to a sister board from DFI. The DFI
CS60-EC was a board that we reviewed
back in March, our report can be found
here. The features of each board and the
components were extremely
similar and should provide a fair performance
comparison. Let's
get started and see how the AE23 does when we put
it to the test.
