Right, I'm just a little curious (i don't know that much about the inner workings of a cpu, although i consider myself fairly competent with the general idea and the idea of FSB and all that stuff)
i got me a sempy 3000+ socket 754 on a asus k8n4-e deluxe (1.8ghz stock)
and for someone reason
9x286 overclock = not stable
8x325 overclock = stable
both result in 2.6ghz
just, it doesnt make much sense to me - its stable with a higher FSB but the same clock speed.. ? the only thing i can think is it would be maybe its not quite getting enough vCore or something
isn't at all a problem just curious, would like to keep the multi on 9x so when I vChipset mod my nforce 4 i can push it further (higher multi obviously means i can keep FSB lower, which i would have thought would result in higher stable overclock) as i said just curious how this works - ideally i want 9x multi because my ram is also coming very close to its top limit (its set at 100mzh in bios which is as low as i can put it, no divider options) but with higher fsb it gets pushed up, i think its around 160-170mhz atm, but if there's a lot more headroom in this cpu i don't want to be limited by ram (this stuff wont go much over 200mhz, its generic crappy pc3200)
anyway, hope i made sense!
Regards
Alec
i got me a sempy 3000+ socket 754 on a asus k8n4-e deluxe (1.8ghz stock)
and for someone reason
9x286 overclock = not stable
8x325 overclock = stable
both result in 2.6ghz
just, it doesnt make much sense to me - its stable with a higher FSB but the same clock speed.. ? the only thing i can think is it would be maybe its not quite getting enough vCore or something
isn't at all a problem just curious, would like to keep the multi on 9x so when I vChipset mod my nforce 4 i can push it further (higher multi obviously means i can keep FSB lower, which i would have thought would result in higher stable overclock) as i said just curious how this works - ideally i want 9x multi because my ram is also coming very close to its top limit (its set at 100mzh in bios which is as low as i can put it, no divider options) but with higher fsb it gets pushed up, i think its around 160-170mhz atm, but if there's a lot more headroom in this cpu i don't want to be limited by ram (this stuff wont go much over 200mhz, its generic crappy pc3200)
anyway, hope i made sense!
Regards
Alec
essential the motherboard just isnt good enough