nForce overclocking

[joeld]

Several questions:

1) Why has Anandtech so far (that I know of) been the only site to offer reveiws of the nForce? Does nVidia lift NDA's only to certain reviewers, or does nobody else have reference boards?

2) Has anyone heard about the overclockability of the nForce IGP, or about the overclockability of the first shipping nForce boards from MSI, ASUS, etc? Will the coolbits reg entry work just like with a agp card?


-joeld

 

[tazdevl]

Joel,

I bet Anand had an exclusive agreement with nVIDIA. He seems to have a prety good relationship with them. I"m sure another site or two has reference boards and reviews will be forthcoming. In a way it's pretty smart on nVIDIA's part. They get feedback from Anand, make some tweaks... then send out boards with modified BIOS and drivers to the rest of the gang. That way you don't have a Radeon 8500 debacle.

Regarding overclocking, why would you use coolbits when the nForce boards are supposed to be using AIM bios? I doubt coolbits would even work because oc'ing the other components is controlled @ the BIOS level, not the OS. No news on OC'ing has hit the net yet. I think in Anand's article it mentioned that that the BIOS didn't have any OC'ing options. He might have gotten an updated BIOS in between his first and forthcomng second review. Otherwise it looks like we will have to wait for a production board review.