OC'ing and Memory

[white]

i've read that the best way to overclock athlons is to use the multiplier. it seems that changing the multiplier will affect the chip speed considerably. so in order to optimize the clock speed do people lower the FSB while raising the multiplier? or does each chip have a max multiplier that is independent of the FSB?

i've also read that the difference between mushkin 1.5 and 2.0 is that 1.5 is good at cas 2 up to 133 and 2.0 is good up to about 143 or something. so since athlon overclocking is usually done by the multiplier and not the fsb, is it worth it to get 2.0 for oc'ing an athlon?

 

[office boy]

Please read this
Then ask away.

 

[white]

i read the article a couple days ago but i hear members talk about not being able to increase their fsb by more than a few mhz. so is 133 fsb overzealous?

also, since the article implies that hitting 133 fsb isn't always possible, is it worth it to get mushkin rev 2 ram?

 

[paulip88]

The FSB cannot reach 133, but the memory can. This is because the memory can be set to run 33% faster than the FSB. This is why the PC133 can run at 133 even with the 100FSB. What this means is that if you actually do up the FSB to 110, your memory would be running at 146MHz, unless you set it to equal the FSB.

 

[office boy]

But as to if the ram is worth it... How much is that stuff going for now?

 

[Navi]

no one ever got fired because they bought good memory =]

-Navi