AMD front side bus overclocking on an Asus A7

[Bignate603]

Ok, i was fooling around in my bios and i noticed something, in the ASUS A7 once you go up over a certain amount in the frontside bus (i think it was 120 or something like that) the frontside bus is divided by 1/4 instead of 1/3. If you pair this with good ram, (or setting your ram to be slightly underclocked) you should be only overclocking the CPU and the chipset. The PCI cards would drop down into a more acceptable range and should be stable. Has anybody tried this? I know most overclockers try to inch up slowly, and i think they hit the wall of 110 before they got to the switch between 1/3 and 1/4. This is all speculation because i have not tried it yet. I'll try it on mine tommorow.

 

[Fardringle]

Generally, the problem encountered with overclocking the FSB on AMD/VIA motheboards is with the chipset, and not with the periperals... Even with nothing in the system other than the bare essentials, very few people have been able to get their systems stable (or even to boot) with the FSB set to 110 or higher due to limitations in the chipset. Adequate cooling (more than just a little heatsink) on the Northbridge seems to help this somewhat, but not as much as many of us would like...

 

[Bignate603]

yeah i found out cause i tried this morning and it wouldn't boot, i guess the 100 mhz on DDR limits the ability to overclock the chipset. water cooling for a chipset... get it's own little peltier, lol...