the success of non-standard FSB speeds?

[Rigoletto]

This question occurred to me after experience of underclocking my Athlon 600. I would get crashes in QIII, or alternatively no crashing in QIII but locking up when loading Windows 2000.
So, is this just an issue with the Athlon classic or its chipset, the gigabyte board, or a general one?
I ask because out of boredom I was considering overclocking a Celeron 633 to 950, or who knows, maybe only 92FSB, maybe 100+FSB. So, will these irregular FSBs be stable, never mind the processor?
Much obliged to answers for this.

 

[paulip88]

It really depends on your hardware. Irregular FSBs stress all sorts of system components. If your parts can handle it, then it will be stable. If it can't, then either you won'trun at all or it may have some performance/stability issues.

If you can make it up to 100FSB, great for you. Other than that, you'll pretty much have to mess with it to find the best setting for your system.

 

[Rigoletto]

why the instability in underclocking though? which parts are most vulnerable to this?

 

[Rigoletto]

why the instability in underclocking though? which parts are most vulnerable to this?

 

[paulip88]

How did you underclock? Did you down the multiplier or did you down the FSB? If you downed the multiplier, I have no idea. If you downed the FSB, then it may be because some of your components do not like the abnormally slow FSB speed.

 

[2nice4you]

There is absolutely no reason why you should have any problems running at reduced fsb as long as pci and agp ratios are the same as for 100MHz fsb.