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It’s the little things that matter to enthusisats Intel enthusiasts around the world either love or hate the Intel D975XBX ‘Bad Axe’ motherboard, but one thing is a fact – everyone knows the board. Intel has not said if the current D975XBX revision 304 and lower boards will support quad-core processors and there might be something behind that.
Here at IDF every single quad-core processor that was seen running on Intel chipsets used the upcoming Intel D975XBX2 ‘Bad Axe 2’ motherboard. We managed to attend, get this, an overclocking/performance workshop here at IDF and were able to get an up close and personal look at the D975XBX2 motherboard. Looking at Bad Axe 2 not too many differences can be seen from the outside, but for those looking for a challenge take a look at the image above and see if you can find any differences. If you’d like to compare the above picture to the original take a look at with Intel D975XBX pictures. The major component change that stood out for LR was the fact that Intel moved from a Silicon Image (SiI) 3114 chipset to the Marvell 88SE6145 controller. (The black chip on the left hand side of the board with an M on it.) With that said all the other important changes that will impact enthusiasts can be found in the BIOS and we got a chance to take it for a test drive. The system we were able to use consisted of the Intel Core 2 Quad QX6700 processor on the Bad Axe 2 Rev 400 motherboard using BIOS version 1446, which is all the latest and greatest parts and versions that Intel can offer today.
Looking at the main menu we notice that not much has changed from the original Bad Axe other than the BIOS version.
New Features over BX1: 1. Kentsfield Support Conroe/XE Support ECO’d in BX WW13 (AA# -304) New Heceta to support PECI Layout and stack-up changes/tuning that gain margin for both default and over-clocked operation 2. SATA II Controller Marvell 4-port SATA2 PCIe controller 3. Sigmatel Audio Upgrade (for Vista compliance) 4. CK-505 Clock 5. Physical switch for Power On/Off 6.
Enhanced voltage tweaking options for non CPU related circuits 7. BIOS Enhancements Improved User interface/OC steppings If there are enough interests, i might be able to talk to the distro and get a promo for this board Retail price: same as D975XBX ETA: End October Pre-order Kentsfield here.Looking at the main menu we notice that not much has changed from the original Bad Axe other than the BIOS version Perfomance BIOS Settings Moving a couple tabs over in the BIOS under the the title performance a much cleaner page is found and this is where enthusiasts and overclockers are going to spend the majority of their time.
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Entering the menu for 'Processor Overrides' one can find all the tools needed to overclock the processor. The BIOS for Bad Axe 2 shows you the math behind the system settings, which is handy for novice overclockers. Not much else to say on this screen other than it's where you change the multiplier, FSB frequency, voltages, and FSB Latch.
Speaking of voltages this BIOS version goes from 1.2875V to 1.600V on the vCore, but ours was manually set to 1.5375V as we are overclocking the Intel Core 2 Quad QX6700 processor as you will see in a little bit. Finally Memory Voltages Moving back to the main 'Performance' menu we selected 'Memory Configuration' and saw pretty much the same menu as the original Bad Axe. Intel also officially announced support of Enhanced Memory Profiles and will introduce EPP support in an upcoming BIOS release. When Intel supports EPP they will add those setting changes here in the configuration menu. Then we saw the voltage options.
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Anyone that owns or has read reviews of the Intel D975XBX motherboard knows that it only goes up to 2.2 Volts in 0.1V steps. The new Intel D975XBX2 motherboard goes from 1.80 to 2.80 in 0.04V steps, which is something we are all happy about. Intel claims that Bad Axe 2 will allow for better memory overclocking than the previous generation due to a number of changes that have been made. The memory dividers remain the same and give users an 800MHz, 667Mhz, 533MHz, and 400MHz option. After looking at the 'Processor Overrides' and 'Memory Configuration' sections that leaves the 'Bus Overrides' the last section to talk about. Here the PCI and PCI Express Bus can be locked down or overclocked per the end users liking. Intel said that while PCI Express Bus freequncy doesn't play a big roll now it will in the future when GPU's need more bandwidth After setting everything up in the BIOS like pictured above a few final adjustments were made (1333MHz FSB Strap, with an increased multiplier of 11) the system was restarted and when it posted our Intel Core 2 Quad QX6700 processor was no longer a 2.66GHz quad-core processor it was now a monster running at 3.66GHz!
On a pre-production motherboard equipped with a beta BIOS and a pre-production QX6700 processor a 1GHz overclock was achieved like it was no big deal. Not only was it shocking to see how easy it was to get I was shocked that Intel was showing this at IDF before quad-core is officially out for the public to buy. I guess it wasn't really 'Intel' presenting it was two enthusiasts that just happen to be Intel employees! I'd like to thank Dan Ragland and Jeff Bake (as seen above) for allowing Legit Reviews to watch them take Bad Axe 2 for a test drive and do their overclocking magic. It's always good to see those that helped design the product out using it and pushing the limits of what it can do. With employees like Dan and Jeff hiding in the ranks of Intel enthusiasts around the world can rest assured they have their 'own' bringing out products that will be enthusiast friendly.
It should also be pointed out that Intel used their own watercooler on the test system and that we would guess overclocks like this are best done with water cooling. If you look in the case window pictured above you can see the tubes coming off the waterblock in the test system that was used. In closing we'd like to show you one benchmark that we were able to see run on the above system. With the Intel Core 2 Quad QX6700 processor we were able to see Cinebench 2003 complete the CPU Benchmark with all cores rendering the image in a short 13.4 seconds! I highly advise you to download Cinebench 2003 if you can find the dated benchmark (9.5 is current) and try this out at home and then you'll understand just how fast 13.4 seconds really is! For those that don't have the time to try it out our Dell XPS M1710 gaming notebook with the T7600 (Merom) processor completes the benchmark in 31 seconds, the Core 2 Extreme X6800 processor completes the benchmark in 22 seconds and the fastest offering by AMD (Athlon 64 FX-62) finishes the benchmark slower than our notebook at 35.6 seconds.
Now does 13.4 seconds sound fast?.Looking at the main menu we notice that not much has changed from the original Bad Axe other than the BIOS version Perfomance BIOS Settings Moving a couple tabs over in the BIOS under the the title performance a much cleaner page is found and this is where enthusiasts and overclockers are going to spend the majority of their time. Entering the menu for 'Processor Overrides' one can find all the tools needed to overclock the processor. The BIOS for Bad Axe 2 shows you the math behind the system settings, which is handy for novice overclockers. Not much else to say on this screen other than it's where you change the multiplier, FSB frequency, voltages, and FSB Latch. Speaking of voltages this BIOS version goes from 1.2875V to 1.600V on the vCore, but ours was manually set to 1.5375V as we are overclocking the Intel Core 2 Quad QX6700 processor as you will see in a little bit.
Finally Memory Voltages Moving back to the main 'Performance' menu we selected 'Memory Configuration' and saw pretty much the same menu as the original Bad Axe. Intel also officially announced support of Enhanced Memory Profiles and will introduce EPP support in an upcoming BIOS release. When Intel supports EPP they will add those setting changes here in the configuration menu. Then we saw the voltage options.
Anyone that owns or has read reviews of the Intel D975XBX motherboard knows that it only goes up to 2.2 Volts in 0.1V steps. The new Intel D975XBX2 motherboard goes from 1.80 to 2.80 in 0.04V steps, which is something we are all happy about. Intel claims that Bad Axe 2 will allow for better memory overclocking than the previous generation due to a number of changes that have been made. The memory dividers remain the same and give users an 800MHz, 667Mhz, 533MHz, and 400MHz option.
After looking at the 'Processor Overrides' and 'Memory Configuration' sections that leaves the 'Bus Overrides' the last section to talk about. Here the PCI and PCI Express Bus can be locked down or overclocked per the end users liking.
Intel said that while PCI Express Bus freequncy doesn't play a big roll now it will in the future when GPU's need more bandwidth After setting everything up in the BIOS like pictured above a few final adjustments were made (1333MHz FSB Strap, with an increased multiplier of 11) the system was restarted and when it posted our Intel Core 2 Quad QX6700 processor was no longer a 2.66GHz quad-core processor it was now a monster running at 3.66GHz! On a pre-production motherboard equipped with a beta BIOS and a pre-production QX6700 processor a 1GHz overclock was achieved like it was no big deal. Not only was it shocking to see how easy it was to get I was shocked that Intel was showing this at IDF before quad-core is officially out for the public to buy. I guess it wasn't really 'Intel' presenting it was two enthusiasts that just happen to be Intel employees! I'd like to thank Dan Ragland and Jeff Bake (as seen above) for allowing Legit Reviews to watch them take Bad Axe 2 for a test drive and do their overclocking magic. It's always good to see those that helped design the product out using it and pushing the limits of what it can do.
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With employees like Dan and Jeff hiding in the ranks of Intel enthusiasts around the world can rest assured they have their 'own' bringing out products that will be enthusiast friendly. It should also be pointed out that Intel used their own watercooler on the test system and that we would guess overclocks like this are best done with water cooling. If you look in the case window pictured above you can see the tubes coming off the waterblock in the test system that was used. In closing we'd like to show you one benchmark that we were able to see run on the above system.
With the Intel Core 2 Quad QX6700 processor we were able to see Cinebench 2003 complete the CPU Benchmark with all cores rendering the image in a short 13.4 seconds! I highly advise you to download Cinebench 2003 if you can find the dated benchmark (9.5 is current) and try this out at home and then you'll understand just how fast 13.4 seconds really is!
For those that don't have the time to try it out our Dell XPS M1710 gaming notebook with the T7600 (Merom) processor completes the benchmark in 31 seconds, the Core 2 Extreme X6800 processor completes the benchmark in 22 seconds and the fastest offering by AMD (Athlon 64 FX-62) finishes the benchmark slower than our notebook at 35.6 seconds. Now does 13.4 seconds sound fast? Hoh seh liao.