However, if you are brave enough or unreasonable enough to veer away from the nominal work mode for the sake of rocky overclocking path, you will get access to very modest contents of the Performance section.

Processor Overrides subsection contain everything you might need to overclock your CPU.

You can select processor Vcore from the drop-down menu. The supported interval ranges from 1.2875V to 1.6V. The increment is pretty small and equals 0.0125V and the voltage may even be set below the nominal value if necessary. CPU Voltage Offset allows adding another 300mV, and Enhanced Power Slope should ensure more steady current flow for the CPU power supply. The mainboard also offers pretty extensive options for FSB and chipset voltage adjustment. Front Side Bus Voltage Override can vary from 1.1V to 1.5V with 0.025V increment, and MCH/ICH Voltage Override – from 1.25V to 1.7V with the same increment.

Intel DX38BT mainboard allows changing the processor clock frequency multiplier only for those CPUs that have an unlocked one. The FSB frequency can be adjusted in the interval from 133MHz to 500MHz with 1MHz increment. Processor Speed information string will report the resulting CPU frequency once you change the FSB speed. Current Processor Voltage reports the set processor Vcore (it will report the nominal value if you didn’t change it).

No way to change the processor clock frequency multiplier and 500MHz maximum FSB speed are not very serious drawbacks, and all other options of the Processor Override section are outstanding! Now let’s move on to the next section called Memory Override, where we can adjust memory frequency, timings and voltage. Just like in the previous case the set of available options is impressively rich. The entire bottom part of the page serves informational purposes and reports memory capacity, operational mode, nominal frequencies and timing settings. However, there is still one evident drawback we should point out.

Memory Frequency parameter can be set at 800, 1066, 1333 or 1600MHz. however these values are available only for the default FSB speed. However, as we have already mentioned above, Reference Frequency parameter allows setting the FSB frequency to 200, 266, 333 or 400MHz. In this case the memory-to-FSB ratio changes, too, and different dividers will be used. And taking into account that we are overclocking the system and increasing the FSB speed at the same time, the memory frequency will depend on three different parameters. There is nothing dramatic about it, any other mainboard works exactly the same way, but it would be nice to have an informational string reporting resulting memory frequency after all these changes have been made.

The absence of this information string that would report the resulting memory frequency makes overclocking very inconvenient. Other than that the options of the Memory Override section are more than sufficient. The board allows adjusting the memory frequency, major timings and voltage from 1.5V to 2.5V with a small increment of 0.04V.