Hey guys, I just put together a computer for a buddy of mine, the FSB on the mobo can run at 400, the cpu at 333, and ram at 400... i wanna know what are the best settings in the bios to overclock stable... im not at his house at the moment, but his FSB was set at 133 for default... and the core voltage i think was 12.5, im not sure if any of you have the same setup- but please give us some feedback on what to change (all my mobo lets me do is change the FSB multiplyer =P) i never actually got to mess with this kinda stuff. i heard if you lower the core voltage the multiplyer can go higher, but im not really too sure =). please post your thoughts. thanks! we are just air cooling with a SWIFTECH MCX 462 cooler and a badass heavy duty fan... thanks for the input.
Ok, you REALLY got your terminology screwed up. The "mobo" doesn't run at 400mhz, the RAM and CPU can. A core voltage of 12.5v would kill any processor. But a multiplier of 12.5 is a good thing. Core voltage and multiplier are exclusive items. It's multiplier and FSB that related. A lower multiplier can yield a higher FSB, but that's usually only done when you can't get the FSB higher at the default multiplier. And, the most important thing you need to learn: overclocking is NOT something you can easily predict, as there are WAY too many things that can be the limiting component (power supply, motherboard, RAM, CPU, HSF, case cooling, PCI cards...). Having us tell you what overclock you can achieve would be trying to predict the exact order of events for a football game that won't happen 20 years from now.
Whypick1 is absolutely right. Making A LOT of assumptions, i think you should be happy if you set your FSB to 200 and your multiplier to 12. This would mean your cpu is running at 200x12 = 2400Mhz or 2.4Ghz. You might need to increase the voltages to get this stable. especially the chipset voltage, and maybe the cpu voltage.
well, as i said, all i could change on my board was the multiplyer. so i really didnt know what the hell to expect with his. we messed around a bit- and we got 2.08ghz and stuff. i really havnt read a large article on overclocking in a long time- so i dont really remember anything about ddr ram and such. i read it back in the day. anyone care to point out a really good article (that is recent) so i could get the best profromance outta his machiene? thanks guys.
