Need help with 8PE667. (Experts go here)

[mikef07]

Ok I have a P4 2.4B Processor and I have overclocked to 2.7ghz. I hae PC2700 memory. I want to get it a little higher. I have not changed the voltage at all. It says that my memory when it boots is at 375Mhz. What does this mean? My settings are 150x18 currently. What can I do to make my memory stay at this (because I know it is stable) and get my FSB to about 160Mhz? Also I want to leave my AGP and PCI about the same which currently is at 75 and 37.5 respectively.

 

[snowwie]

it's all about your clock speed dividers

for memory, your fsb is at 150, and your mem divider is at 4:5 making it 187.5 x 2, or 375

the gigabyte only offers two dividers in their bios, 1:1 and 4:5, so if you raise your fsb, you raise your mem speed, unless you drop your ratio down to 1:1, but that really hinders your memory performance, you can try increasing the mem voltage to make it more stable at 160 and 4:5, but I don't think that the gigabyte board offers a whole lot of mem voltage options. Try Easytune4, I hear it really adds a lot more versatility.

I hope this helps, but remember, I don't really know what I'm talking about.

 

[mikef07]

What if I can get my FSB up to about 165Mhz? Would it be worth it then to run it at 1:1? Which of these would you choose?

A) CPU @ 2.7GHz with Memory running at 187.5Mhz or

B) CPU running at 2.97Ghz with memory running at 165Mhz

I mostly do video encoding and authoring.

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

option a

download sandra and run a few benchmarks at each setting (take the average of a few with sytem freshly rebooted)