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- Date:
- Wednesday, May 21, 2003
- Author:
- Morry Teitelman
- Editor:
- Kyle Bennett
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Intel's Springdale D865PERL
The D865PERL is Intel’s 200 MHz FSB solution for the mainstream user, based on their i865PE chipset. We know many OCers are interested in this chipset as they are hoping it to be the bargain of the summer.
BIOS
The D865PERL uses a proprietary Intel AMI based BIOS, with the standard AMI layout driven by a top menu bar. The Intel board itself has no CPU overclocking features built in per se, but does offer some minimal performance related tweaking options.
The Advanced menu contains submenus for all performance related settings within the BIOS, as well as the hardware monitoring section. The Hardware Monitoring screen offers monitoring of various board temperatures and voltages, as well as fan speeds from the onboard fan headers. Note that the fan headers are auto-sensing and will only display fan speed through the menu when a fan is connected to the header. The Drive Configuration screen contains settings for system hard drive devices, including options to enable bus mastering and the software RAID option in-built to the ICH5R Southbridge chipset.
The Chipset Configuration menu allows for full control over most chipset related settings, including memory timings. Altering the system memory timings can radically improve the overall system speed and performance.
The Burn-In Mode screen contains the only BIOS based overclocking options. With the Do you wish to continue? option is set to Continue, the Host and I/O Burn-In Mode option becomes enabled. This setting allows for very minimal overclocking of the FSB and PCI buses.
When the Extended Configuration option within the Chipset Configuration screen is set to User Defined, all chipset memory related settings becomes selectable. The SDRAM Frequency option allows for manual definition of the DDR FSB, up to 400 MHz. Note that you are only able to use the 400 MHz option when an 800 MHz CPU is installed in the board. The SDRAM Timing Control option must be set to Manual – User Defined for the memory timing options to become user configurable. The memory timing options available include CAS latency, RAS Active to Precharge delay, RAS to CAS delay, and RAS precharge. On all memory related timing options, the lower number is more aggressive.
The top level Boot menu contains boot related options, including the ability to enable booting from a USB device and the Intel Rapid BIOS Boot option. The Intel Rapid BIOS Boot option allows for speedier boot up times by reducing the number of BIOS related hardware checks that are done during the system start up sequence.