Ram is running slow, up FSB?

Bmwww · 24 May 2012 at 15:55

I have a ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe motherboard with AMD Phenom II 1000T CPU and OCZ 1150mhz DDR2 RAM. However the issue I get is the motherboard only ever supported 1066Mhz RAM.

So my question is if I increase the FSB to bring the RAM up to its full speed then drop CPU and Hypertransport multiplier down so they both run at there original cycles. Have I actually over clocked anything or should it be a relatively worry free operation and all run as it should?

Thanks

Orcvader · 24 May 2012 at 16:06

I wouldn't bother, overclocking the RAM will bring you no real world performance games. Overclocking the CPU on the overhand, will.

Hagar · 24 May 2012 at 16:10

Assuming that your standard bus clock is 200MHz and for the ram to run at 1066MHz you have a 2.67 or 8/3 divider this provides 533MHz or 1066 DDR.

I do not know what multi the CPU is but say 2.6GHz and 13x

Changing the bus clock to 215MHz will give 1150MHz ram and then reducing the cpu multi to 12.5 will give a cpu of 2.69Ghz also the HT and NB multis should go to 9x to give approximate standard clocks.

However a 215MHz bus clock may just work as a mild overclock and give 2.9GHz CPU and 2150MHz Ht and NB

Bmwww · 24 May 2012 at 17:08

Ok, I am now running at full speed and all is good. Thanks for the help