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DFI INFINITY 965 DARK Motherboard Overclocking Test

Overclocking/Overclocking Tests by windwithme @ 2007-05-23

DFI launches their Intel 965 based motherboard, their DARK series promises high overclocking potential at bargain price, can it deliver? Let´s find out

BIOS Tweaking Options

BIOS explored

The main BIOS page reveals the usual options, as well as the GENIE BIOS settings,

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The GENIE subpage reveals all the tweaking options which will interest overclockers, set FSB speed, memory speed, PCIe speed, CPU multiplier and more

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The CPU submenu gives you more tweaking possibilities, allowing you to disable/enable virtualization and thermal throttling amongst other options.

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DFI is known for extended DRAM tweaks in their BIOS, the Infinity is no different:

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Back to the main GENIE menu we can set FSB from 266 to 700Mhz

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Set DDR2 speed to 533/667/800

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Onto the voltage options submenu:

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We can up to 0.7875v to the CPU’s vcore:

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DDR2 volage up to a staggering 3.375v

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VTT voltage increase comes in handy for stability once you reach 500Mhz FSB:

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As well as the Northbridge voltage:

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Now that we know our tweaking options, let’s see what performance we can extract from the DFI Dark ->

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