DFI LanParty Dark X48 Motherboard Review

It is time to look at the overclocking part of our review. We are putting the stock and the overclocked systems against each other to see how much better a system can be with a few minor tweaks. Our Q6600 isn’t very happy past 3.2GHz. So we just cranked down the multiplier to 7 and cranked up the FSB to 435MHz to increase the memory clock. There is a still lot of room for improvement. The downside is this processor just cannot pull it off.

The DK X48 handled the clocking like champ.  Given the right processor the overclocking limit would have been much higher. Still whenever pushing a Quad Core with FSB is a huge test in itself and this board performed wonderfully

As with all of our reviews we pit the default speed system against the overclocked one in a head to head byte match. The results of this can be seen below.

This small overclock does show some big moves. Looking at the synthetic benchmark shows some real improvement towards the awesome side. This is what we are looking for. Then looking at the UT3 results is icing on the cake of true performance boost in the real world. So even with a small overclock the board just jumps to some serious performance action.