Quick & Dirty OC Guide

[Ridesy]

Hi All (particularly Zebo if you are out there?)

Forgive me, I am new to overclocking and have been pointed in the direction of Zebo's article by an Asus forum.

I have read and hopefully understood most of the article, but have yet to put this into full-scale practice.

Having searched my Asus BIOS I have found most of the values described in Zebo's guide (although called different things), but I have one immediate question on the first Isolate - Max HTT/FSB.

Other similar guides I have read do not mention this stage and I wanted to understand what I am checking, as this appears to be trying to push the FSB or HTTlink as others call it to above the standard 1Ghz of the NForce 4 Chipset???

I have a "Hyper Transport Frequency" setting in BIOS (range 5 - 2) that would appear to be there to allow CPU timings to increase to over the standard 200Mhz and then keep the total "actual HTT" to below 1Ghz.

Is this first isolate really trying to push that 1Ghz figure up and if the PC Boots with the CPU frequency at 230Mhz and the "Hyper Transport Frequency" still at 5, does this mean I can push the "actual HTT" to 1.15Ghz etc....?

Can anyone please clarify?

Thanks

Ridesy

 

[letdown427]

pushing that to 1.15Ghz won't really provide any benefits, and could create problems. Basically, if you 'FSB' is 200, leave the multiplier (in your case Hyper Transport Frequency) to 5x. If 'FSB' is up to 250, use 4x,if up to 333, 3x, and you're very unlikely to have to worry about any higher, even about 3x really.

You're Max HTT/FSB is the (normally) 200Mhz bit of your CPU. That's the bit you'll be overclocking. Keep your FSB/HTT multiplied by the 'Hyper Transport Frequency' is below 1Ghz.

Max FSB/HTT is not the HT link that you're thinking of. Increasing the FSB (HTT in the case of athlon 64) is basically what overclocking is lol, so it will be mentioned in any overclocking guide you read.

 

[Effect]

Pretty much what letdown427 said. From memory, that isolate step you speak of is to find how high your motherboard will allow the HTT to go. Your motherboard may max out at say 280mhz FSB/HTT, you find this using that isolate step.