Overclocking, RAID and System Setup
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Overclocking on all Iwill boards is a dream come true for most hardware enthusiasts! Offering every option to be edited in the bios (with the exception of the 100 MHz / 133 MHz jumper), Iwill has made a name for themselves in the overclocking arena. The KK266Plus does not break this tradition. Pushing upwards of a 170 MHz FSB on an underclocked Athlon 1.4 GHz, this easily beats the best I have used before hand. Of course, to get speeds near this, you have to have some kick ass SDRAM, such as Corsair’s. Overall I was able to push the Athlon Thunderbird 1.4 GHz to a great 1.65 GHz with air-cooling. Several other motherboards have reached this speed, but not 170 MHz FSBs!The RAID features included on the KK266Plus-R are powered by the American Megatrends MG80649 chipset. This chipset offers performance and features on par with the popular Promise counterpart. Also, its important that I tell you that you CAN use the KK266Plus-R IDE3 and IDE4 ports for standard non-ATAPI ATA/100 devices! This means you can add an additional four hard drives with or without a RAID mode. An excellent feature I wish all board manufactures would include on RAID boards.
Here is the system setup and benchmarks used:
| CPU | AMD Thunderbird 1.4 GHz (133 MHz Bus) |
| Memory |
1 x 256MB Corsair PC150 SDRAM |
| Hard Drive | 20.5GB 7200 RPM Western Digital EIDE |
| Video Card | Visiontek GeForce 3 |
| Video Drivers | Detonator 12.90 |
| Operating System | Windows 98 SE |
Tests:
Quake III: Arena
3DMark 2001
SiSoft Sandra Memory Bench
SiSoft Sandra CPU Bench
Content Creation Winstone 2001
Business Winstone 2001
4 different SPEC view perf tests
Cachemem
ScienceMark
