- Dec 12, 2001
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Basically what I'm asking is simple. My friend has an asus P4c800 and a P4 2.8 with 1GB of Mushkin Xp4000 DDR
He refuses to upgrade atm because he's paying his own way through school and all that. So I talked him into overclocking.
I made a watercooling setup using some old parts and played around. managed to get 260Mhz FSB with 1:1 memory. Now my question is this. If the memory won't go higher, would it be wise to run a 5:4 divider and go with a higher FSB for a faster CPU, or keep it as it is for faster memory with a 1:1 ratio? I know P4s need memory bandwidth, but which would give better overall performance for this setup? I'm wondering if a faster CPU and a slightly slower memory (still above DDR400 speeds) is going to prove more beneficial for general gaming and basic video editing than having a 520Mhz memory speed.
so it would be 3640Mhz CPU and 520Mhz DDR or whatever CPU speed I can achieve by going with higher FSB and a slower memory speed (think if I got to 270Mhz I could have DDR432 and CPU speed of 3780).
Thanks in advance for any suggestion or advice/info you can give.
P.S. he will not upgrade to something more current. Not yet anyway.
He refuses to upgrade atm because he's paying his own way through school and all that. So I talked him into overclocking.
I made a watercooling setup using some old parts and played around. managed to get 260Mhz FSB with 1:1 memory. Now my question is this. If the memory won't go higher, would it be wise to run a 5:4 divider and go with a higher FSB for a faster CPU, or keep it as it is for faster memory with a 1:1 ratio? I know P4s need memory bandwidth, but which would give better overall performance for this setup? I'm wondering if a faster CPU and a slightly slower memory (still above DDR400 speeds) is going to prove more beneficial for general gaming and basic video editing than having a 520Mhz memory speed.
so it would be 3640Mhz CPU and 520Mhz DDR or whatever CPU speed I can achieve by going with higher FSB and a slower memory speed (think if I got to 270Mhz I could have DDR432 and CPU speed of 3780).
Thanks in advance for any suggestion or advice/info you can give.
P.S. he will not upgrade to something more current. Not yet anyway.
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