overclock ram/mobo

Truthfully, you won't see a diff in real world applications and games, as long as the timings for the ram is set accordingly. According to Anandtech, there is absolutely no difference in high or low fsb speeds except in benchmarks.

So what your saying is that you don't see any performance gain by over clocking? I beg to differ and I think you might get a lot of conflicting replies. I took my CPU from 2.4 to 3.6 and I can tell you that I see a definite difference in performance. With that said I will sit back and watch this thread...should be interesting. BTW, there is an overclocking guide in these forums. I would read that and come back with any questions.


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Apparently you didn't read the first post. The OP's question was talking about the ram and fsb while you are talking about cpus.

Perhaps I should have made myself clearer. What I meant was the diff in performance of 10 x 300MHz = 3GHz and 9 x 333MHz = 3GHz. According to Anandtech, there is no difference in real world applications between the higher fsb and the lower fsb. Thus it's better to have the lower fsb with the higher multiplier.

Likewise, ram that's rated at 200MHz with CAS 2 is as fast as 400MHz with CAS 4. As long as the timings are set accordingly, there should be no difference.

Quite a few ram DDR2 800 2x1GB can hit 1000MHz. Google around.

Depends on what timings. In synthetic benchmarks, yes. In most real life apps and games, no.

Well, if you overclock the ram, usually you have to loosen the timing at the same time, which sets back part of the speed gain.

As for overclocking FSB, if you raise it, your cpu clock will rise. Of course that'll have an impact. Or are you talk about just raising FSB without ocing cpu? How would that work? Raising FSB and decrease multiplier? What would be the point of that?

How can you OC without knowing this knowledge? Read the guide on OCing here, it explains everything.

FSB (non effective) x cpu multiplier = clock speed.

So increasing the FSB will increase the clock speed. It will increase the ram speed as well.

The FSB is the bus for cpu, memory and board. everything basically runs off this bus and you have to adjust accordingly. I guess I was under the impression you were overclocking everything.