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| by 3oh6 | August 20, 2008 | ||
| Overclocking Methodology Overclocking MethodologyRule number one, no CPU-Z screenshots and calling it an overclock, not here, not now, not ever. A couple e-mails have come through asking why we do such extensive testing of the overclocks. Sorry but that just doesn't make sense to us. Go find the sites that toss up a CPU-Z and ask them why they provide such a lack of testing of overclocks. We believe in full disclosure here and an overclock is only as good as it is tested. For the benchmarkers out there, myself included, sure some less than stable pushing numbers is good to know...but we are few and far in-between. The rest of the crowd wants to know what a reasonable clock is so we provide for the masses.  What you can do though, if you're looking for some benchmark numbers from the hardware we review here, is to join us in the forums and get on our tails to post some of the benches we pull. Trust me when we say that this hardware sees a lot more than we show here in the review. With that said, it is time to run down our stability testing methodology for motherboards. The recipe below provides a heck of a stability testing platform but of course, there is no way to fully test an overclock using every program we want for the length of time we would prefer. Review time lines just don't allow it, so we do the best we can with the amount of time we have. Here is what we test, and you can see in the screenshots provided, of all the overclocks we list:
As we said, this is about as good as we can offer for stability testing and to be honest, it is quite thorough. Remember that this is basically the lineup some hardware manufacturers, okay so only one, think is too tough. If you want to know who not to spend your money on because of that, fire me an e-mail and I'll tell you the story if I am in a bad mood and feel like complaining. Now that you know what we call stable...let's see some clocks already! | ||
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