Chaintech V915P
Maximum Stable Overclock
234MHz (936MHz Bus) / 17% Delta
CPU Frequency
234×18 = 4212MHz
| Stock | Overclock | Delta | Delta % | |
| Sandra CPU Dhrystone ALU (MIPS) Sandra CPU Whetstone FPU (MFLOPS) Sandra CPU – ISSE2 |
10456 4287 7421 |
12108 5058 8742 |
1652 771 1321 |
15.8% 18.0% 17.8% |
| Sandra Memory Float (MB/s) Sandra Memory Int (MB/s) |
4523 4521 |
5258 5252 |
735 731 |
16.3% 16.2% |
| PCMark 04 | 5300 | 6079 | 779 | 14.7% |
| 3DMark 05 | 2407 | 2476 | 69 | 2.9% |
| Half-Life 2 – Avg FPS Half-Life 2 – Low FPS Half-Life 2 – High FPS |
48.60 25 171 |
49.21 26 186 |
0.61 1 15 |
1.3% 4.0% 8.8% |
Just like the ABIT and the Asus previously, overclocking doesn’t benefit 3D applications/gaming much, if at all! The main benefit from doing this kind of system overclocking is to help boost intensive “desktop” applications like number processing and computations, media editing, and 3D rendering.
Environment:
| Stock | Overclocked | Delta | |
| CPU (Idle) | 31C 88F |
33C 91F |
2C 3F |
| CPU (Load) | 45C 113F |
53C 127F |
8C 14F |
| System (Idle) | 9C 48F |
9C 48F |
0 |
| System (Load) | 8C 46F |
10C 50F |
2C 4F |
Ambient Temperature = -7C / 19F
Notes:
Considering the cheaper price of the Chaintech V915P compared to other 915P motherboards, it’s no real surprise to see it not overclock as well. Starting overclocking at 238MHz was a bit too much for the Chaintech – it would either freeze during Windows boot, or Sandra CPU. At 235 to 236MHz, things Sandra CPU would complete, but 3DMark05 would fail. 234MHz was the highest stable setting where all the tests can complete successfully.
