The XPC has quite a comprehensive BIOS menu, featuring a host of tweakable parameters. The most interesting by far in my opinion is the "clever" fan control management system. You can manually set what fans to have it work on (CPU being the obvious one to choose), and it varies the fan depending on the CPU temperature. Using the built in ICE cooling system, and with smart fan adjusting enabled, at no point did the XPC have to increase fan speed over the nominal speed -even after continuous burn-in tests on Sandra. This is quite some achievement, as running at this low fan speed the XPC is virtually silent, i.e. unless you have your ears within a foot of the system, you will not hear any audible output at all. Super-impressive stuff, especially considering the high chip temperature of the Athlon XP CPU.
As you can see, memory is tweakable, and using my Winbond PC2700 I was able to set everything to maximum speed. Would be nice to be able to alter a few more timings however.
On seeing frequency / voltage control in the BIOS I became quite excited, surely something like the XPC wouldn't have overclocking support?
As you can see from the menu above it does not, which is a bit of a shame as i imagine the ICE cooling system is more than up to the task of cooling even an overclocked XP. If you put something like a 100MHzFSB Duron in the XPC, you might have some luck forcing it up to 133MHz FSB, but that’s where the "overclocking support" ends.
