The Super Speed option is the one we will be playing with. It keeps all the over-clocking settings, and it still has a aspect to over-clock everything automatically.

When you choose the Over-clock setting, there are three options: Manual, Optimal Reference (which is automatic over-clocking), and Default (not over-clocked). If you choose Optimal Reference, the BIOS let you set the over-clock at four different levels.

L1 is mildly overclocked and L4 is the main over-clock it will give you. I moved up the settings slowly, and all stayed totally stable all the way up to L4. To show you how far the L4 setting over-clocked the system, here are the CPU-Z readings. The first one was taken at default settings with no oc. The second one was taken at the L4 oc.

As you can possibly tell, the level four overclock increases many of the machine speeds. The core speed of our Intel Presler went from 2.8 GHz to 3.3 GHz without breaking a sweat on air cooling. If you look up at the voltage, you will also notice it increase from a stock 2.4v to an over-clocked 2.624v. The front side bus increased for 200 MHz to 236 MHz. The bus rose from 800 MHz to 943 MHz. You can not observe it on this screen, but in the memory tab you would also have seen that the timing frequency that started at 333 MHz over-clocked to 393.3 MHz.

In these increases, the system is still fully stable and looks like it could have gone a little further. The temperatures of the processor and the system both stayed well within their limits under load. This automatic over-clocking feature would be fantastic for new over-clocker, or people who would like to get more performance out of their computer but not how to get it.

There will still be lots of people who feel more comfortable changing all the over-clocking settings themselves. Do not worry, because there is a manual over-clock screen.

• Adjustable bus speeds
• Adjustable memory timing
• Adjustable voltages (may be Vcore only)
• Adjustable ratios