It's not a DFI board but an Abit P45, but the trick was he moved his shelved Luna and Pulsar Project card back in to show me the benifits of overclocking an Intel Core 2 Duo X6800 w/ OCZ Flex DDRII 9200 RAM.
Overclocking the FSB does yield more instances of Masterverb from 14 to 18, and the real benefit I noticed was the sheer amount of polyphony from VSTi synths like Oddity, Zeta, and a great sounding Camel Audio Additive synth, and huge amounts of plugs. The Camel Audio synth is where VSTi's should concentrate their strengths instead of emulating analogs. They still don't come close to Scope, and are far from a real analog.
At any rate, the FSB seems to be the trick w/ low latency CL3 and CL4 settings, at a high FSB rate. The CPU was warm but this isn't even an issue w/ the O Stepping of a Wolfdale CPU.
I know that overclocking a CPU shortens it's life a little, but everything I saw tonight shows me that a jump in the FSB w/ low latency RAM just makes a DAW so much smoother, and I think I will tweak my board a little when I do this new build.
There are benefits w/ Scope it seems, but I will do this for the benefits of Bidule and VSTi synths.
Nice to know that Scope can run anywhere w/ anything. His RME card has pops and clicks at higher FSB settings, where the Scope cards have zero flucuation or jitter.
Have A Nice Weekend.
