Tyan Tomcat K8E

Overclocking:

As mentioned several times already, Tyan motherboards aren’t designed for overclocking but we attempted to overclock this motherboard anyhow. The cooling used on the K8E test system was a Sytrin Nextherm ICS 8200 Midi Tower case with a 120W TEC (Thermo Electric Cooling) unit, 80mm Nexus exhaust fan on the top of the chassis, along with an 92mm exhaust fan on the rear. Cooling the CPU was a stock AMD 3000+ HSF. The chipset heatsink remained unaltered during the overclocking process. After spending a good amount of time tinkering in the BIOS and testing the setup at different speeds, the highest FSB we could reach was a mere 223MHz. In order to achieve this overclock, the CPU Voltage was increased +0.050V and the memory timings remained stock. Unfortunately, this 207MHz overclock isn’t anything special as most other motherboards from vendors such as DFI, Abit USA, and ASUS are able to achieve much higher results. Nevertheless, at least we were able to adjust the voltages and have a few extra overclocking features unlike motherboards from ASRock and other smaller vendors.