ECS C51G-M754 Motherboard Review
Overclocking
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Contrary to its competitor, Foxconn WinFast 6100K8MB-RS, ECS C51G-M754 doesn’t bring any fancy overclocking feature. The only overclocking feature it has is the ability to increase its base clock from 200 MHz up to 400 MHz into 1 MHz steps (200 MHz through 210 MHz into 0.5 MHz steps).
On the other hand, it brings some memory timings adjustments, as you can see in Figure 6 – feature not so common on motherboards with integrated video.
Figure 6: Memory timings settings available on ECS C51G-M754.
Even with just one overclocking option, we were able to put our Athlon 64 3200+ (2 GHz) running externally at 224 MHz (2.24 MHz internally), a 12% increase over the standard clock (which lead to a 9.5% performance increase on Quake III).