Soldato
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I've seen around the forums that people lower the multiplier for an overclock. Why would you do this?
Multiplier Question
- Thread starter BlackDragon
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Soldato
because they can get a higher clock with the lower multi...
example, e6600, clocked to 3.6 @ 400x9, but they want to push the fsb, and the board wont let them push it any further, lower the multi to 7 and push the fsb, they get 475 on the fsb, so then up the multi to see if they can get it stable on the 8x multi, thats 3.8, it's just how it works sometimes.. having the higher fsb will also allow them to run the memory faster and thus have a higher bandwidth, slight performance increase
example, e6600, clocked to 3.6 @ 400x9, but they want to push the fsb, and the board wont let them push it any further, lower the multi to 7 and push the fsb, they get 475 on the fsb, so then up the multi to see if they can get it stable on the 8x multi, thats 3.8, it's just how it works sometimes.. having the higher fsb will also allow them to run the memory faster and thus have a higher bandwidth, slight performance increase