Overclock a Intel.
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They're very very similar, especially if you clocked 939 series AMD. Lock the RAM down so they're never going to be overclocked and are at known stable clocks and timings (so heavy divider use), then slowly up the fsb on the chip testing with occt/whatever as you go for stability. Keep an eye on temps of course. When the chip becomes unstable, give it a little more v.core and keep going until you're happy or the chip is getting too hot, and find the max stable, then up your ram multiplier til your RAM is running at a happy speed.
If you're going to overclock the FSB a LOT, then its worth raising the northbridge voltage slightly by a couple of notches.
Thats it in a nutshell. Of course temperatures/cooling and voltages are the limitation. Its best to settle for a slightly lower overclock than pressure the chip with long term heat stability issues.
Ideally you dont want the chip going much over 60, and the quads are stable up til about 71 degrees, but lower the better, because obviously its easy for temps to creep up slowly if under load for quite a long time solid!
I tend to use OCCT CPU custom stress these days for heat, as it gets pretty hot pretty fast, usually within 10 mins you'll be seeing the average heat, although it does usually creep up by a few more degrees over an hour or two as the ambient temp rises.
If you're going to overclock the FSB a LOT, then its worth raising the northbridge voltage slightly by a couple of notches.
Thats it in a nutshell. Of course temperatures/cooling and voltages are the limitation. Its best to settle for a slightly lower overclock than pressure the chip with long term heat stability issues.
Ideally you dont want the chip going much over 60, and the quads are stable up til about 71 degrees, but lower the better, because obviously its easy for temps to creep up slowly if under load for quite a long time solid!
I tend to use OCCT CPU custom stress these days for heat, as it gets pretty hot pretty fast, usually within 10 mins you'll be seeing the average heat, although it does usually creep up by a few more degrees over an hour or two as the ambient temp rises.