AOpen AX6C i820+Rambus review

Hardware One heeft een review van de AOpen AX6C i820+Rambus plank online gebracht. Het bord heeft 3 RIMM slots, een configuratie die in tegenstelling tot de Intel Vancouver probleemloos werkt op de AX6C. Voor overklokkers geeft AOpen de mogelijkheid om de busspeeds en Rambus multiplier vanuit het BIOS in te stellen:

The Award BIOS was a joy to work with. First off, the board is jumperless in design and FSB speeds are fully controllable from within the Award 6.00PG setup.

With the entire band of FSBs you can choose from 100 / 105 / 114 / 120 / 124 / 128 / 133 / 138 / 143 / 148 / 150 / 152.5 / 155 / 160MHz, you will know that overclockers are really taken seriously. The good thing we have we have come to know is that RDRAM runs at a speed determined by a multiplier of the FSB, thus there is a certain potential in overclocking the expensive RDRAM investment. So thankfully, Aopen went a step further to decouple the multiplier lock for the RDRAM, making all the six multipliers 2.0x, 2.25x, 2.66x, 3.0x, 3.55x, and 4.0x usable.

The only thing missing from the BIOS setup is voltage tweak, that appeared to be greyed out.