New to nforce boards...question

[DragonFire]

I just got my Abit AN7 today and was wondering if someone could explain or point somewhere that explains that whole FSB/DRAM ratio setting in the bios?

 

[dhaddox]

http://forums.techbg.com/index.php?showtopic=3308&st=0

 

[dhaddox]

Just kidding with that last one, The ratio sets how fast your memory will run in relation to your CPUs bus speed. For example, if you only had 166mhz ram, but a 200mhz bus on your cpu, you could use a 5:4 ratio, so the ram would run at 4/5ths of the cpu bus, or 160mhz.

 

[Falloutboy]

but only do this if you have too. its kills the performace quite badly. you'd be better off if you have unlocked CPU to just run at 1 166 FSB or as high as your ram can take and up the multi.

I have really crappy ram so I just figured out how fast my processor would go at 166FSB then I just upped the FSB while lowering Multiplyers to find the fastest stable FSB while keeping about the same clock.