Specs and Speed

Board Specifications

Iwill XP333-R
Chipset	Ali MAGiK 1 M1647C
Memory	3 184-pin DIMM sockets (supports up to 3GB)
Drive Controllers	1 FDD, 2 ATA133 Channels, 2 ATA133 RAID channels
Slots	1 AGP, 5 PCI slots
Bus Speeds	100-233MHz in 1MHz increments
USB	1 USB 1.1 Controller supporting 4 ports

An interesting thing to note is the Iwill-branded south bridge. Iwill however, is not stepping into the chipset business anytime soon and the south bridge is just an Ali M1535D+ chip.

Iwill “make things better”

As if overclocking were a fashion, Iwill has crammed its XP333 chock full of overclocking features. Included are options that allow you to change anything from FSB, to CPU core voltage, to CPU clock ratio. However, the most appealing feature was Iwill’s PCI clock divider options. Available to you are five options that give you flexibility for overclocking. No longer are you held back by FSB speeds and you don’t have to worry about toasting any of your add-in cards.

233MHz FSB!

A 500MHz Athlon runs really cool

Every motherboard has dividers that keep the PCI bus and AGP port from going out of range and change depending on which FSB frequency your processor uses. The problem comes when you start taking the FSB to higher non-standard frequencies. Standard frequencies are those defined by Intel and AMD and usually increment in multiples of approximately 33MHz. A motherboard that has its FSB overclocked to 120MHz and using a 1/3 PCI divider will have its PCI bus operating at 40MHz – a full 21% increase in PCI frequency and usually a cause for concern. Many PCI cards cannot operate much higher than their intended speed and many of these cards can only accept a small margin of error.

Yes!	More power! More Power!!!

It’s a good thing that Iwill has included plentiful dividers because you’re given the option to take the board’s FSB speed from 100MHz to 233MHz – that’s an effective 466MHz DDR FSB! Under our tests, we used a 1.1GHz Athlon MP and achieved 1328MHz using 166MHz FSB with an 8.0X multiplier.