ECS GeForce6100SM-M Motherboard Review

Overclocking

ECS GeForce6100SM-M has only two overclocking options, allowing you to increase the CPU base clock up to 300 MHz in 1 MHz increments and the PCI Express clock up to 150 MHz in 1 MHz increments. Of course didn’t expect that an entry-level board to carry too many overclocking options, like voltage adjustments.

Figure 4: Overclock adjustments available on ECS GeForce6100SM-M (October 16th, 2006 BIOS).

This board provides a very few memory-related adjustments, but no memory timings settings, as you can see in Figure 5.

Figure 5: Memory adjustments available on ECS GeForce6100SM-M (October 16th, 2006 BIOS).

With this motherboard we were able to configure the base clock of our Athlon 5000+ CPU (which runs at 2.6 GHz) to run at 216 MHz externally, making its internal clock 2,808 MHz, an 8% increase on its internal clock rate. With this overclocking Quake 3 performance increased 5.25% and PCMark05 performance increased 5.72%.