overclocking an opteron with no HTT control?

[Trip Hazard]

overclocking an opteron with no HT control?

Hello, I decided to check out the overclocking potential of my opteron last night but found that the motherbaord (MSI RD480) has very little in the way of HT options: either auto (5x) or 200Mhz (1x)

Is it even worth overclocking with such limited options? any overclock would need to be done with the 1x option so the HTT speed will only be 200 + whatever extra I get out of the CPU.

 

[Trip Hazard]

Still wouldnt work, the htt freq would max out way before the htt got close to 1000.

The board has a 350 limit on HTT/FSB.

I did a quick test last night, a 45mhz overclock with the HT multi set to 1x and ran 1m superpi, it finished 2 seconds quicker than stock settings. Hardly an exhaustive test I know but once I get round to downloading prime and sandra I'll give it a real testing session.

Thanks for all your input.

 

[Trip Hazard]

Maybe AUTO adjusts the speed automatically when overclocking?

Maybe look for some reviews to find out some more info.

Checked quite a few reviews but few go into detail about overclocking. Only one review went into detail about the overclocking options which is where I got the 5x/1x info from.