Epox Canterwood board is a great overclocker

Dom · May 7, 2003, 07:31 AM

IF YOU ARE into overclocking and you want to know what to buy next, we have interesting news for you.

Epox has just released its 4PCA3+ 875 (Canterwood) motherboard and we tested this nice piece of hardware in a neat box full of cables. After doing the usual stability and performance tests, we wanted to see how Canterwood can overclock on this new Epox board.

We were able to run a stable Pentium 4 3GHz FSB 800Mhz first at 3.3 GHz and than onto a quite amazing 3.45 GHz at FSB 920 MHz and we have shots to prove that.

As for the stability of these overclocked settings, Quake 3 and Sandra 2003 Standard and 3dmark 2001 SE haven't said no, we set Corsair memory to its famous 2.2.2.5 settings and that memory did just fine too.

I guess that if you played with additional cooling and used a non-Intel reference cooler, you could go even beyond this point but we are not sure about this so you have to try it. Our chipset is passively cooled only.

The maximum temperature on CPU was 48° Celsius, more than decent and acceptable.

This board has many interesting overclocking settings in the BIOS but we would like to see more freedom in memory settings and to be able to play with multiplayer a bit more than we can now but as for voltages this boards rocks.

I can only imagine what this system could reach using Protemeteia but close to 4GHz would be my suggestion.

A Pentium 4 at 3.45GHz air cooled would sure be a nice thing to show to your pals wouldn't it?

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May 7, 2003, 07:31 AM	#1
Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,940 Rep Power: 0	Epox Canterwood board is a great overclocker IF YOU ARE into overclocking and you want to know what to buy next, we have interesting news for you. Epox has just released its 4PCA3+ 875 (Canterwood) motherboard and we tested this nice piece of hardware in a neat box full of cables. After doing the usual stability and performance tests, we wanted to see how Canterwood can overclock on this new Epox board. We were able to run a stable Pentium 4 3GHz FSB 800Mhz first at 3.3 GHz and than onto a quite amazing 3.45 GHz at FSB 920 MHz and we have shots to prove that. As for the stability of these overclocked settings, Quake 3 and Sandra 2003 Standard and 3dmark 2001 SE haven't said no, we set Corsair memory to its famous 2.2.2.5 settings and that memory did just fine too. I guess that if you played with additional cooling and used a non-Intel reference cooler, you could go even beyond this point but we are not sure about this so you have to try it. Our chipset is passively cooled only. The maximum temperature on CPU was 48° Celsius, more than decent and acceptable. This board has many interesting overclocking settings in the BIOS but we would like to see more freedom in memory settings and to be able to play with multiplayer a bit more than we can now but as for voltages this boards rocks. I can only imagine what this system could reach using Protemeteia but close to 4GHz would be my suggestion. A Pentium 4 at 3.45GHz air cooled would sure be a nice thing to show to your pals wouldn't it? -------------------------- Source: TheInquirer