Secret Overclocking in ASUS Motherboards?

It’s no secret that ASUS motherboards perform very well. But what’s their secret to success? Great engineering? Or something more than that? Today, we take a look at the ugly side of the hardware industry and see the real ace ASUS had up their sleeves!

After checking both motherboards [ ASUS P5AD2 Premium, ABIT AW8-MAX ] using CPU-Z at a variety of clock speeds, we found something truly astounding. We discovered that ASUS was ‘magically’ overclocking the P5AD2 Premium’s FSB by 2MHz across the board!

When we set the FSB speed to 200MHz, ASUS actually overclocked the P5AD2 motherboard’s FSB to 202MHz. Setting it to 201MHz in the BIOS resulted in an actual FSB speed of 203MHz, and the trend continued as we increased the FSB speed.

In other words, the ASUS P5AD2 Premium has an automatic 2MHz advantage over the ABIT AW8-MAX (as well as other motherboards in the market)! Naturally, this is quite unfair.

Rojak Pot