Yup--you're right. (And I didn't mean to come across as testy, sorry). You can just start increasing HTT. However, that will increase everything at once: your HTT, CPU speed and memory. So the preferred method is to find out the max OC of each component, first, before you OC everything at once. --since doing that will increase core clock, memory speed, as well as the mobo's HT speed. That's what they mean by "isolate and consolidate"--find out individually what each component will do. So first for example you may be curious as to what the maximum HTT of the motherboard is, (altho with a 10x multiplier that's largely academic but you might want to find out). You do that by dropping CPU multiplier and run a low memory divider before increasing HTT--that way you know you're running your CPU and memory below spec, only increasing HTT. Try that first, see see how high it goes (until you can't boot into Windows or so). Also remember to drop your Hypertransport multiplier from 5 to 4.
If you just want to see how fast your memory will go for example, drop the CPU multi, set 1:1, and increase HTT--I have this memory also and it doesn't go over 250 at all (3-4-4-8), and it does 230 at 2.5-3-3-8. You'll probably get similar results, altho with yoru setup you probably only care about the high end with 3-4-4-8.
If you just want to see how fast your memory will go for example, drop the CPU multi, set 1:1, and increase HTT--I have this memory also and it doesn't go over 250 at all (3-4-4-8), and it does 230 at 2.5-3-3-8. You'll probably get similar results, altho with yoru setup you probably only care about the high end with 3-4-4-8.
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