Is ASUS cheating? 100=101 MHZ?

[Hardware]

In one review I saw the Asus with a 100=101 pll that seams a 1% advantage from a default 100 mhz pll board!
Is this the exception or Asus "normal" can you post your Asus-pll speed?

 

[jinsonxu]

Same here.

I hear that the Abit KT7 also does that.

 

[jinsonxu]

But comeon... 1% is peanuts. They raised the IO voltage to 3.56 volts just to make sure that it'd be stable...hehe

 

[Hardware]

1% is much in a mainboard test!

Well I have a KT7 with a 100mhz pll!

Anybody else with a 101 mhz Asus pll?

 

[Phuz]

I dunno

 

[Jonny]

Nope, Iam at 100.899. Almost there.

 

[Sunner]

I hardly think its for cheating purposes, the clock values are rarely very exact, which is why you can end up with strange values sometimes when using programs to measure CPU clock.

 

[Zeeliv]

My Asus K7M pushes my poor Athlon 700 at a neckbreak pace of 704.

 

[Buddha Bart]

My friends k6-2 posts at 351 every time he boots.
Its off some ghetto rise/mtech board (thanks jguru).

We always mock him for being a dangerous overclocker.

bart

 

[downhiller80]

Asus always do this. My A7V runs at 101MHz as well (well 107 actually but thats a different story).

It is a cheat. They know that PC magazines greatly exxagerate the differences when benchmarking MBs.

You'd have to be the dumbest mofo to buy a mobo based on it's performance though. Stability & features is SO much more important (imho).

Seb

 

[Hardware]

For me its about cheating (send a note to ct) lets wait and see!

 

[Radboy]

I have CUSL2. 133 = 134. 933MHz = 938. I'm not complaining.

 

[Underclocked]

The I/O voltage above is a much bigger problem IMHO. Some boards from Asus have ran so high as to cause instability. I had two P5As where I believe this was the case. Never could get either of those two to run stably. Several others did.

 

[zippy]

Hardware, while your at it complain about how 33MHz actually equals 33.3333333...MHz and 66MHz actually equals 66.66666666....MHz and 133MHz actually equals 133.33333333....MHz. I don't think that there is any FSB that doesn't actually have a repeating, or at least long, decimal after it.

 

[Mark R]

The problem is the clock-generator chip itself. There is a tolerance of about +-1% or so on the chips.

It's nothing to do with the motherboard manufacturers - for every one running at 1% fast, there's probably one running 1% slow.

 

[Hardware]

The pll is fixed I doubt there will be any +/-1% tolerance!
It seems now Asus is just ahead from other mb because its pll cheating!