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Intel H67 Motherboard Roundup - Four of a Kind

By Vincent Chang - 6 Mar 2011

BIOS Settings & Test Setup

BIOS Settings

If you thought the Intel P67 chipset came with certain limitations when it comes to overclocking, especially the base clock, then you should know that overclocking is basically non-existent on the H67 platform. The only available avenue is to overclock the integrated graphics core and the CPU base clock, but not all boards implement such options. There's no official way to change the CPU multiplier even with a 'K' processor. However, there are still some voltage settings that are available in the BIOS of these boards, and which are listed below: 

Models CPU Voltage DRAM Voltage Other Settings
ASUS P8H67-V
-0.635 to +0.635V
(0.05V steps)
1.185 to 2.135V
(0.005V steps)
  • CPU PLL: 1.80, 1.90V
  • PCH Voltage: 0.735 to 1.685V (0.005V steps)
  • iGPU Voltage: -0.635 to +0.635V (0.005V steps)
  • iGPU Frequency: 1100 to 3000MHz (50MHz steps)
ECS H67H2-M +20mV to +320mV
(20mV steps)
-800mV to +630mV
(10mV steps)
  • IMC Voltage: +15mV to +675mV (15mV steps)
Gigabyte GA-H67A-UD3H
0.750 to 1.795V
(0.005V steps)
1.00 to 2.60V
(0.02V steps)
  • QPI/Vtt Voltage: 0.84 to 1.70V (0.02V steps)
  • Graphics Core: 0.85 to 1.70V (0.01V steps)
  • PCH Core: 0.900 to 1.500V (0.02V steps)
Intel DH67BL
N.A 1.2 to 1.8V
(0.05V steps)
  • Graphics Core: 1.00 to 1.52V (0.02V steps)

 

Test Setup

We went with the top Sandy Bridge Core i7 at the moment for the processor, using the integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000 as the primary graphics subsystem. We were forced to use different memory timings as the ECS and Intel boards were running on default settings and did not allow us to change the timings.

  • Intel Core i7-2600K @3.4GHz
  • 2 x 1GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-1333 (CAS 7-7-7-20), *the ECS and Intel boards were running at 9-9-9-24
  • Intel HD Graphics 3000 (with 256MB frame buffer and default clock speed)
  • WD Caviar Black 1TB, SATA 6G (Intel 6G)
  • Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit)
  • Intel INF 9.2.0.1015 and Intel Graphics Driver 8.15.10.2266

The following benchmarks and applications were used:

  • Futuremark PCMark Vantage (1.0.3.1)
  • Futuremark 3DMark Vantage (1.0.3.1)
  • SpecView Perf 9.0
  • Far Cry 2 
  • PowerDVD 10 (ver 2308) with Superman Returns/Black Snake Moan Blu-ray discs for HD video playback segment
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