| [M]adness |
HWFaq  |
| Contests |
| Search |
| Links |
| Sponsors |
| Send News |
  |
| Sponsors |
| .Priorweb |
| Arctic Silver |
| Asus |
| Caseking |
| CoolerMaster |
| Danger Den |
| Dollarshops |
| Geeks.com |
| Gigabyte |
| MSI |
| OCZ |
| PC-Cooling |
| Scythe |
| Swiftech |
| Tones |
| ||-More-|| |
 |
 |
||||||||||||||||||||
 |
 |
||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||
 |
 |
||||||||||||||||||||
 |
 |
|
 Before we start analyzing the obtained results, let's find out what the HT Link is designed for. In Intel-terms, the HT Link frequency is quite similar to the FSB: taking care of the communication between processor and Northbridge, which features for instance the PCIe lanes, sata ports and audio support. The faster the link between processor and Northbridge, the more data can be transferred between both and, in theory, the higher the performance will be. Without going to much into detail, it's necessary to know that the current HyperTransport link is clocked at a frequency of 1800MHz, which is 1000MHz higher than the first edition of the HT link used on the s754/s939 Athlon64 platforms. Note that although the original HT Link frequency was set at 800MHz later revisions of the s939 motherboards had a stock HT Link frequency of 1GHz. Test settings: Variable:  (Click for bigger version) The HT Link frequency is not what what we'd call interesting in terms of overclocking for performance. The difference in performance between very low and high frequencies is in most benchmarks non-existing, although we see a noticeable performance increase in the 3D benchmark. Note that the effect of overclocking the HT link frequency depends on what type of video card you're using. IGP's and high-end video cards (for instance dual gpu cards) will benefit more from HT Link overclocking, because they rely on high pci-e transfer rates. Low- and middle-end cards, which are less powerful and have a lower transfer rate, will benefit a lot less. *: Because of the NB frequency of 1.8GHz, we were not able to test HT link performance scaling beyond 1.8GHz. The HT Link has to be equal or lower than the NB frequency at all times due to the design.  More reviews in this category can be found below: |
||
|
|
Copyright © 2001-2010 Madshrimps / JMkeOC.com, All rights reserved.
Graphical Design by Dennis Kestelle, Programming by John Meys, Paul Meys and Frederik Colardyn, Overall Site design by John Meys
All information and graphics contained in Madshrimps are sole property of the Madshrimps crew and may not be reproduced or copied in any manner without written permission from us.
BTW-BE 0888919678
Graphical Design by Dennis Kestelle, Programming by John Meys, Paul Meys and Frederik Colardyn, Overall Site design by John Meys
All information and graphics contained in Madshrimps are sole property of the Madshrimps crew and may not be reproduced or copied in any manner without written permission from us.
BTW-BE 0888919678
|
ADS by G | |
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
 |
Search Madshrimps |  |
 |
 |
|
|
|
||
 |
 |
|
Daily News | |
|
|
|
|
Hardware TPM Hacked... Chinese Site Copies... Configure Your Comp... Seagate debuts the ... AMD to Sample 32 nm... NVIDIA Optimus - Tr... Windows 7 Battery N... Asus jumps the gun,... MSI Shows Passive C... AMD's ATI Radeon HD... Intel's Sandy Bridg... Intel Core i7 660UM... AMD reveals Fusion ... MSI P55-GD55: A Mai... AMD Reveals More Ll... AMD’s Radeon HD 557... Gigabyte HD 5670 OC... Sapphire HD 5570 1 ... Powercolor HD 5870 ... [M] MSI P55-GD80 en...
|
||
|
|
|
Sponsor Space: | |
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
New Content | |
|
|
|
|
Articles/Reviews: USB 3.0 and SATA 6G... MSI Wind U135 Revie... Intel Clarkdale CPU... Three AMD 785G Moth... Vidabox Premium Wir... OCZ Throttle 32Gb e... Seven Intel P55 Mot... RAID 0 Stripe Sizes... Gigabyte Geforce GT... Intel Clarkdale vs ... Swiftech Apogee XT ... LanCool PC-K58 ATX ... Larkooler Universal... MSI GTX 275 Lightni... MSI Geforce GTX 275... Howto and Guides: Building a 300W Fan... NVIDIA Geforce 8400... NVIDIA Geforce 8800... Reviving and Volt M... Protect the core of... |
||
|
|