VTec stuurde ons een link naar Thresh's FiringSquad waar ze een poging deden om de snelste gaming config van het moment in elkaar te flansen. Een 1.1GHz Athlon werd overgeklokt naar 1224MHz en gecombineerd met een GeForce2 Ultra op 290/500MHz. Het gevolg was de geboorte van een ultieme gaming doos die zelfs Quake III op 1280x1024 / high quality setting met bijna 100 frames per seconde op je scherm tovert:
Equipped with AMD's fastest CPU, we felt it was only a given for us to look into ways to make our 1.1GHz Athlon run faster. In our original 1.1GHz review we paired all testbeds with the fastest video card (the GeForce 2 Ultra) and motherboard we have in our possession. However, one aspect we didn't thoroughly cover was overclocking.
Sure it may sound crazy to some to overclock an $853, 1.1GHz processor, but we know there are those of you out there that always strive for the best performance, regardless of your existing hardware configuration. If this fits your description (or you just like to read about fast hardware), this article is for you.
What exactly happened when we overclocked our 1.1GHz Athlon CPU? As we mentioned in our original review, 1.2GHz of pure silicon bliss. To add to the performance potential of our 1.2GHz system we dialed up the speed of our GeForce 2 Ultra to the tune of 290 core/500MHz memory for this article.
With so much power inside this system, it would probably be illegal to export this overclocked setup to some third-world countries.
In our thirst to play (err, test) even more hardware, we also tossed our 1GHz Pentium III processor onto ABIT's BE6-II motherboard. With Intel's recall of the 1.13GHz Pentium III, 1GHz is the fastest clock speed available from Intel for the next few months.