faster cpu vs faster ram?

Anywho, my a64 overclocks to 2.4 quite easily, but I have to decrease my memory speed to 266 (3-5-5-10 @2.7) or 200 (2-2-2-5 @2.7) in order to get it to this speed. Now here comes the question, is a 600mhz overclock worth a 133 loss in memory speed?

The best of my system specs –
AMD athlon 64 3000 (939)
Asus A8V deluxe (rev 2.0)
Kingston hyperx PC2700
Neo power 480

PS. is there a way to overclock my ram with out overclocking my htt?<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by songoku on 10/18/04 09:22 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

any ideas on overclocking the ram, but not the hyper transport?

Antec Neo Power 480, AMD Athlon 3000 (@2.4), A8v Deluxe (rev 2.0), Kingston Hyperx pc2700 (@266), ATI Radeon 9800XT, WD740GD, 6Y200M0, 6B300S0, 1633s, 832s, HD-166D, Samsung 172x, Logitech MX700.

Athlon 64 system are not bottlenecked by their HT link. You can try to run benchmark at different HT multiplier, you will see that the HT speed have not much influence in most benchmark. the HT speed is more than enough for HDD, GPU and PCI cards access!

So use your favourite benchmark, if you are a gamer, use a game timedemo and write down your results.

And I'm pretty sure you can change your memory ratio, you probably have a menu in your BIOS that fix the ratio between your RAM and the HT. Usually hte slection will be something like : 133%, 100%, 83%, 75%, etc.. or 1/1, 3/4, 5/4, 5/6, etc...

So, you can get the most of your ram. You can also mess with your HT multiplier.
Ex : 4 x 200 = 3 x 267

The third option is to lower your CPU multiplier to get higher FSB and use it in combination with the memory ratio.
Ex :

HT = 4 x 200
MEM = 100%
MULTIPLIER = 10
Result : 2000MHz @ DDR400

HT = 4 x 222
MEM = 83%
CPU MULTIPLIER = 9
Result = 2000MHz @ DDR366

HT = 4 x 250
MEM = 75%
CPU MULTIPLIER = 9
Result = 2250MHz @ DDR400

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<font color=red>Radeon 8500 128Megs</font color=red> @ C:275/M:290

Have you the latest BIOS for your MB?

<A HREF="http://www.asus.com.tw/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=A8V Deluxe" target="_new">http://www.asus.com.tw/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=A8V Deluxe</A>

The latest BETA BIOS for your MB is Version 1008.002.

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<A HREF="http://www.ocworkbench.com/2004/asus/a8vdeluxe/g3.html" target="_new">http://www.ocworkbench.com/2004/asus/a8vdeluxe/g3.html</A>
Check those screenshots! You can do more than you think with your bios!

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Check on this page, there is "Memclock to CPU ratio" option. Based on your BIOS type, here is the things that should work for you.

<b>== CHOICE 1 ==</b>
HTT SPEED = 800MHz <-- <i>This setting is the HT multiplier (X / 200)</i>
FSB SPEED = 240MHz
CPU MULTIPLIER = 10
Memclock to CPU ratio = 4:3

MEM SPEED = 320MHz
CPU SPEED = 2400MHz
HTT SPEED = 960MHz

<b>== CHOICE 2 ==</b>
HTT SPEED = 600MHz
FSB SPEED = 300MHz
CPU MULTIPLIER = 8
Memclock to CPU ratio = 1:1

MEM SPEED = 300MHz
CPU SPEED = 2400MHz
HTT SPEED = 900MHz

Here is the math behind this :

HTT SPEED = FSB * (BIOS HTT SPEED / 200 <b>or</b> HTT multiplier)
CPU SPEED = CPU MULTIPLIER * FSB
MEM SPEED = FSB * (Mem Ratio where you substitute ":" by a "/" )

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