For the overclocking of the MSI P35 Platinum motherboard, there was a bit of difficulty at the beginning, but nothing that wasn't overcome with a little help. My fellow reviewer William Henning took over a fair chunk of the overclocking for the P35 and found it to be an impressive piece of hardware. In the end, we did hit some new highs, but we were limited by the poor memory performance. I can't be completely certain, I would have to say that MSI may have overlooked some intricate memory details in the BIOS.
I would like to see these issues resolved, however we did hit some pretty high speeds with the MSI P35 Platinum.
Here's the two OC settings we'll be testing.
At a 7x CPU multiplier we reached pretty far.
3.3936GHz (485MHz x 7) for a 1939.23MHz FSB
4-4-4-12/2T memory at 969.6MHz (484.8MHZ x 2)
CPU Voltage (VCore) 1.55V
Memory Voltage 2.4V (2.5V works well too)
VTT FSB Voltage 1.40V
NB Voltage 1.45V
SB I/O Power 1.6V
SB Core Power 1.15V
And burst out of the gate with an 8x multiplier.
3.6788GHz (460MHz x 8) for a 1839.43MHz FSB
4-4-4-12/2T memory at 919.8MHz (459.9MHz x 2)
CPU Voltage (VCore) 1.55V
Memory Voltage 2.4V (2.5V works well too)
VTT FSB Voltage 1.40V
NB Voltage 1.45V
SB I/O Power 1.6V
SB Core Power 1.15V
One final note before we get to the figures; I included competing boards that ran with SPD timings of 4-4-4-12/2T and what ever MHz they hit. Some of those motherboards were running completely different timing parameters for their tests.
So, how did the MSI P35 Platinum fare in the great Intel chipset overclocking race?
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