Motherboard and Its History (part 1)
First Generation Core i3 as the Prototype of Motherboard Evolution
First Generation Core i3 as the Prototype of Motherboard Evolutiion
INTERNATIONAL | COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY - A motherboard (also called mainboard, main circuit board, or mobo) is the main printed circuit board (PCB) in general-purpose computers and other expandable systems. It holds and allows communication between many of the crucial electronic components of a system, such as the central processing unit (CPU) and memory, and provides connectors for other peripherals. Unlike a backplane, a motherboard usually contains significant sub-systems, such as the central processor, the chipset's input/output and memory controllers, interface connectors, and other components integrated for general use.
There was a first generation Intel Core processors, named Core i3 540.
Today we decided to test one of the first generation Intel Core processors. Namely the Core i3 540.
The base frequency of this processor is 3066MHz. CPU-NB, or UnCore part of the crystal, which includes a memory controller and a third-level cache, operates at a frequency of 2133MHz.
The maximum frequency of RAM that the processor supports out of the box is 1333MHz.
We were able to overclock our instance to a frequency of 4600 MHz. At the same time, the voltage on the cores was 1.42V and 1.35V on the UnCore part. This suggests that we have come across not the worst sample. The maximum overclocking frequency at which the first-generation Core i3 processors can operate stably varies from 4200 to 4800 MHz (rare copies are capable of 5000 MHz).
With such an overclocked processor cores, the UnCore frequency was 3200 MHz, and the RAM was 1600 MHz.
Compared to the base frequency of the processor, the gain is an impressive 50%. Now it remains to find out whether the chip can boast the same performance gain.
All games were manually tuned, specifically in order to maximize the processor load and prevent the video card from becoming a “bottleneck”.
Based on this, the screen resolution was also chosen. 720p won’t let the GeForce GTX760 be the limiting factor.
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Editor :Andi Saputra