Our first attempt at overclocking the P67 FTW was to get from the stock speed of 3.4 Ghz to 4.0 Ghz. Before starting to overclock there are some BIOS settings we like to change. Obviously some of these setting changes are optional and your hardware and personal preferences may warrant doing things a little different.

• In the memory configure sub menu and then to SPD Profile Select, set to custom and enter memory settings as per manufacturers specs
• In the CPU Advance Configure sub menu we changed the following:
  1. EIST – Disabled
  2. C1E Disabled
  3. CPU C3 Report – Disabled
  4. Without vDroop
  5. Internal PLL Voltage Override – Enabled
  6. Dimm voltage to manufacturers specs

After changing the above BIOS settings we set the CPU multiplier to 40 and raised the CPU voltage to 1.28. Then a quick 10 pass run of LinX to test for stability. ***NOTE – We suggest running 20 passes of LinX to ensure complete stability. For our testing purposes 10 passes is good enough to demonstrate our BIOS settings and their initial results.

As we normally do with our motherboard reviews, we’ll attempt to get a solid 1 Ghz overclock from the stock speed which will land us at 4.4 Ghz or maybe more!

Moving along with the overclocking process our next attempt was at 4.3 Ghz. With just a minor increase in voltage to 1.3v in BIOS, we easily achieved our goal!

Ok, so let’s have a run at 4.5 Ghz shall we? While overclocking to 4.0 Ghz and 4.3 Ghz, we had an inkling we might be using more CPU voltage than needed, so we attempted the 4.5 Ghz without raising the CPU volts from the 1.30v we used for the 4.3 GHz overclock. Our inkling turned out to be correct as we were able to get to 4.5 Ghz with no further bump in CPU voltage and the 10 pass run of LinX passed with no errors.

So there you have it, a very solid 1.1 Ghz overclock from stock speed! Overclocking is a breeze with the P67 FTW after making the changes described above. Once these changes were made it was just a matter of bumping the CPU multiplier and applying a little more CPU voltage, it just doesn’t get much easier than that!