GIGABYTE GA-8TRX330-L Pentium 4 Motherboard

Overclocking:

As mentioned in the BIOS part of the review, without any voltage adjustments overclocking is going to be severely restricted. Also the BIOS only lets you increase the FSB to 232FSB. However, by now hopefully you have realized that the 8TRX330-L is meant to be more of a budget mainstream board and not the higher-end performance enthusiast design. While the Easytune4 software can give a little more flexibility with overclocking, most users prefer to overclock via the BIOS.

Test Setup & Benchmarks Used:

All tests were run using a retail 3.2C processor, still a high-end processor that is about average for a PC enthusiast. The P4C800-E Deluxe used the Corsair memory with 2-2-2-5 timings. Because of unforseen issues with the GA-8TRX330-L, we were forced to use the Kingston memory running at 2-3-3-8 timings. Onboard sound was used however SATA was disabled (because we do not use these features). To keep consistency in the benchmarks, all of the tests were run in the same exact order and the system rebooted between benchmarks.