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| by FiXT | August 29, 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Test Setup & Methodology Test Setup & Methodology  Test Platform:
Our setup is simple, we're testing a motherboard; it is about synergy with the rest of the components not world record 3dMarks. We use two processors for the review for reasons explained in the overclocking results chapter. The operating system was freshly installed and received a few minor tweaks to eliminate errors that could potentially arise from the software. These tweaks included knocking out most of the visual extras from Vista, including the Aero theme; UAC was disabled, along with Windows Defender, the Search Indexer, System Restore, Remote Desktop, Firewall and Automatic Updates. Overclocking & Benchmark Methodology While pushing the limits of hardware is always gratifying, in this review we will be doing things a bit differently with a two-pronged approach. For the majority of people out there, operation under normal every day conditions is a far more likely scenario than extreme overclocking. It was this philosophy that is followed for the benchmark settings as we utilized Asus's CPU Level Up feature to run our overclocked CPU. This feature is open and available to anyone who uses the board and generally speaking will allow users to eek out the best performance possible from their core system, without any of the usual hassles or frustration. Naturally, we will also be showing you how far we were able to push our test system above and beyond what the CPU Level Up feature provides. The stability testing for all overclocks was as follows.
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