mootin

My first FAQ so bear with me ;)


How far can I push my fsb speeds without a PCI/AGP/PCIE lock?

This is a question I hear alot on this forum, unfortunately not many people can give a decent answer.

To work out the max fsb speed you can enter without the PCI/AGP/PCIE buses becoming unstable you do the following:

Firstly the stock bus speed ( I will be using the pci bus as an example at stock speed of 33mhz )


33

divided by the stock fsb ( I will be using 200mhz as an example )

200

= 0.165

With this you can now work out the max fsb you can push.

Im using 38mhz as the absolute max the pci bus speed should be pushed ( according to THE overclocking guide by DeathONator ) .

So....

38 divided by 0.165 = 230.30303mhz reccuring.


And if you dont know how that can equate to a cpu's core clock speed:

230 X 10 ( insert multiplier being used here, I will use 10 as an example )
= 2300mhz / 2.3ghz




So if you have different values from the one's i have used just change them :)

Also I can not say that this is the absolute max speed you can get, as always it will differ slightly for everyone.

If you see anything wrong with this let me know :)


Mootin

mootin

So what do you all think ?

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wack job

i have a amd athlon (tm) xp 2600
my menu shows 1.92 ghz. the computer run smooth with 1g of ram me and my dad built the computer a few years ago. my mother board cant upgrade to a faster chip unless i go to a diffrent board is overclocking worth it

wack job

my chip is amd athlon(tm) xp 2600 at 1.92ghz if i go any faster in speed ineed a new mother board so is overclocking suitable for me. jmchaterina@aol.com

wack job

i have a amd athlon (tm) xp 2600+ at 1.92ghz to put a better chip in i must upgrade my motherboard. money is tight so is overclocking worth it. if so how far should i push it?

RonindeBeatrice

Whoa whoa whoa wack job.... Yes you can overclock, now no more spamming a FAQ, post your question in a thread...

Nice FAQ BTW Mootin.

You should however point out that while the PCI, AGP, and PCI-X bus speeds are the same across different motherboards, the FSB will change, so your multiplier may be higher than .165

mootin

thanks :)

but i dont get what you mean, the .165 is from the stock speed of the bus your using divided by the stock fsb , not the multi :)

obviously yeh if you have different stock speeds you will have to change the maths :)

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faisal

How Can I Change Fsb At Bios??

mootin

look in your motherboard manual :)

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