Am I OCing right?

[culex]

I have a Tbred-B XP 2100+ that I've used for a while and it's bottleneck was a pair of 2x256 PC2100 DDR RAM.

I've recently replaced them with a Mushkin PC3200 DDR RAM 1GB dual channel kit and I've set the following settings in the motherboard.

FSB: 200
Multiplier: 10

The stock multiplier for this is 13 but 13x200fsb would definitely be running too hot on this processor as it's already running around mid 50C with 10x200.

Question is, are the settings I've used correct? Only reason I've downed the multiplier and upped the FSB is so that the RAM can run at it's rated speed. If this isn't the right way to go about it, what settings should I use?

I'm using Abit NF7-S v2.0 for motherboard.

Thanks.

 

[n7]

Someone can correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe your FSB is 133 at default, so running stable at 200 would seem like a pretty insanely good OC to me.

You may be able to lower the FSB & raise the multiplier to get a slightly higher clock speed, but considering higher bandwidth usually = better performance than speed, that may be set up the best you can do.

I would personally bench at 10x200, & then try 13x150, moving the FSB up as far as you can to see which benches better.