Winch 3500 Overclock

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My system:

AMD 64 3500 Winchester
MSI Neo2 Plat
1Gig 2x512 PC3200 Crucial Ballistix

I'm trying overclocking for the first time in preperation for overclocking the E6300 when I order it.

Having read a lot of different sources of information there seems to be a general way of over clocking this chip.

1. Take benchmark start increasing FSB in 5mhz, rebenchmark.

Now I know this changes your memory speed too since the ratio is 1:1, this is where i get confused.
Apparently Id need to set my memory from 200mhz to 166mhz and then clock my cpu up to as far as I can get it. Since I have read running this type of memory at anything over 200mhz is not advisable.

Now setting it to 166 effectivly reduces the performance of the PC, so whats the benefit of upping the CPU speed. You are effectivly lowering one area and increasing another, evening it out?
You apparently cannot adjust the multiplier to anything more than 11x with this chip, which would have been ideal in this situation.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.
 
I came to ask the same thing, the only differnce is that I have 2gig Geil memory so that may be a hadicap.

I don't know anything about overclocking so an idiots guide would be usefull.
 
166 is a divider, not the actual ram speed. The ram will start at 166, but it will go up as you raise the cpu's speed eg- If you raise the cpu to 250mhz, the ram will rise to about 207mhz (250 divided by 200, multiplied by 166 = 207).
 
i hadnt got a clue what i was doing when i had a very similar setup (still do now - see sig)

i dropped the multi from 11x to 10x and raised the FSB from 200 to 220... i guess my rams at 220 now then ?! :confused: oh well its worked fine for the past 12+months
 
fRostiE said:
i hadnt got a clue what i was doing when i had a very similar setup (still do now - see sig)

i dropped the multi from 11x to 10x and raised the FSB from 200 to 220... i guess my rams at 220 now then ?! :confused: oh well its worked fine for the past 12+months
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Erm, and you stopped there? It would have done 220x10 easily, possible even 240x10 (using a 166 divider if the mem wasn't up to it)

Come on, give it some! :D
 
most memory is capable of going beyond there stated speeds if timings are slackened a bit and voltage increased a smidge
 
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