Cheat with chipsets ?

[nelg]

Just wondering if anyone thinks that any company would cheat with their chipset drivers. In light of the “cheatsâ€￾ found in the detonator drivers, would or could you put this past any of them. Would it be possible to cheat on such test as Sisoft Sandra, PcMark or the like ?

 

[horvendile]

To some extent, that's happening. Some mainboard manufacturers overclock the chipsets slightly as default. Whether that's cheating is another matter, but as long as they don't go public with it it's at least sneaking!

My take would be that if the board is stable and you don't plan to overclock then there's no reason to be angry. On the other hand, if you bought the board thinking you would overclock a good performer you will probably be disappointed when you discover that the manufacturer has already eaten into the OC headroom.

 

[Tahir2]

But they (ASUS and now MSI are doing it too I think) 'only' overclock by a single megahertz or slightly more to max of 3 that I have seen.

OCWORKBENCH reviews are always good because they noticed this trend a while back and now ALWAYS post true FSB speed comparisons in all their motherboard reviews.. way to go guys