I made the switch from XPC to Aria, and the Foxconn is the only MATX board that supports some form of overclocking via BIOS. No voltage adjustments, but the FSB can be upped to 233mhz. If you have one of these mobos, or were ever interested in one you probably know Foxconn promised an overclocking BIOS back in July, that was obviously a load of sh!t...
Ne ways I failed to do enough research and since I own a 533mhz Northwood the overclock is capped at 165, instead of 233 if you're using a HT Northwood/Pressy. This motherboard also undervolts horribly, the Shuttle I had typically stayed at 1.472V and dipped to a low of 1.456V (1.5V in BIOS) as read by CPUZ. The Foxconn averages 1.456V and dips as low as 1.440V often. In the Shuttle my 2.26B was stable at 170mhz default Vcore, and I could get it as high as 3ghz upping the voltage a little. Moving over to the Foxconn that caps at 165mhz, and is only stable at about 154 due to the serious undervolt kinda sux. It's not at all what I expected, the temps are read as much lower than when in my Shuttle, and the system temp is reported as 17C in an Aria. It seems like just a low quality board, if you're interested in one I'd hold off until Foxconn gets their sh!t together and actually releases a BIOS update.
Anyways, back on topic, is there any way I can make the mobo think I have a HT chip somehow, and gain the extra .25V and be able to get by the 165mhz cap? Maybe through jumpers or something, or even some way to hack the BIOS. Foxconn is full of sh!t and they've got nothing in the works, how hard can it be to add a few voltage adjustment options?
Ne ways I failed to do enough research and since I own a 533mhz Northwood the overclock is capped at 165, instead of 233 if you're using a HT Northwood/Pressy. This motherboard also undervolts horribly, the Shuttle I had typically stayed at 1.472V and dipped to a low of 1.456V (1.5V in BIOS) as read by CPUZ. The Foxconn averages 1.456V and dips as low as 1.440V often. In the Shuttle my 2.26B was stable at 170mhz default Vcore, and I could get it as high as 3ghz upping the voltage a little. Moving over to the Foxconn that caps at 165mhz, and is only stable at about 154 due to the serious undervolt kinda sux. It's not at all what I expected, the temps are read as much lower than when in my Shuttle, and the system temp is reported as 17C in an Aria. It seems like just a low quality board, if you're interested in one I'd hold off until Foxconn gets their sh!t together and actually releases a BIOS update.
Anyways, back on topic, is there any way I can make the mobo think I have a HT chip somehow, and gain the extra .25V and be able to get by the 165mhz cap? Maybe through jumpers or something, or even some way to hack the BIOS. Foxconn is full of sh!t and they've got nothing in the works, how hard can it be to add a few voltage adjustment options?
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