help with first o'clock
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Matt555
iMod
http://www.hardwareforums.com/overclock-cooling-sticky-11485/
That contains links to good overclocking and cooling threads.
That contains links to good overclocking and cooling threads.
zeus
out of date
The link matt provided itsnt a bad one.
Explaining what to do depends on your motherboard and BIOS. All are slightly different in that some support features that others dont. Its hard to give accurate instructions. In fact its impossible!
The very first thing you should do is make sure you know how your components interact with each other. I cant help you there because im well out of date with it all. Multiplied FSBs were only just becoming popular when I was into overclocking. Before then CPUs simply had a multiplier in and ran straight off the FSB.
I was going to try to explain what to do but its too long winded.
Like I said above, you have to know what the FSB is and how the components operate off this frequency. Once you understand that it should be reasonably easy to know what to do.
A horrible answer to your question but....
How much do you know about the FSB, memory timings, multipliers etc?
Explaining what to do depends on your motherboard and BIOS. All are slightly different in that some support features that others dont. Its hard to give accurate instructions. In fact its impossible!
The very first thing you should do is make sure you know how your components interact with each other. I cant help you there because im well out of date with it all. Multiplied FSBs were only just becoming popular when I was into overclocking. Before then CPUs simply had a multiplier in and ran straight off the FSB.
I was going to try to explain what to do but its too long winded.
Like I said above, you have to know what the FSB is and how the components operate off this frequency. Once you understand that it should be reasonably easy to know what to do.
A horrible answer to your question but....
How much do you know about the FSB, memory timings, multipliers etc?
Big B
HWF Godfather
In traditional overclocking, that's true. However, there are FSB:Memory ratios that you can adjust to allow you to drop the memory's speed and continue cranking up the FSB.
With the Athlon64, there is no FSB. Since there's no memory controller with A64 chipsets, a large part of the reason for the northbridge is eliminated...along with the FSB. Since the memory controller has to run at a divider (since we don't have 2-3GHz DDR/DDR2 modules around). You can run the RAM slower than it's rated speed and not suffer drastic performance hits like you would with traditional designs, particularly with the AthlonXP.
With the Athlon64, there is no FSB. Since there's no memory controller with A64 chipsets, a large part of the reason for the northbridge is eliminated...along with the FSB. Since the memory controller has to run at a divider (since we don't have 2-3GHz DDR/DDR2 modules around). You can run the RAM slower than it's rated speed and not suffer drastic performance hits like you would with traditional designs, particularly with the AthlonXP.