On Wednesday 06 March 2002 05:03 pm, you wrote:
> > And for god sakes, don't over clock... I challenge you to find something
> > which will run NOTICEBLY faster at 1.48 vs 1.46
>
> I must agree, since, at the present time, memory bandwidth is the major
> bottleneck to system performance. Your proc spends most of its time
> waiting for something to do. This is alleviated some what by running DDR
> or Rambus, but it is still where you need to focus you attention. The
> small gain you get from OC will result in a few frames in Q3 or something.
> You will only notice the difference in headaches caused by instability
> issues and buying new parts.
>
> Believe me, I know....
>
> If you really wanted to see some perf. increases, get one of the newer
> MoBo's that allow the Ram to run at a different bus speed than the rest of
> the system. Then plunk down some cash for some 'certified' 333 DDR Ram
> from Crucial or somebody. That way you can ramp you Mem bus to 167/333
> Dual pumped and leave the rest at 133 and have less probs.
>
This MB has no jumpers, everything is setup in the setup screens.
Well the MB has a 266 Mhz FSB, but I guess that when the bus speed is set to
133 the DDR RAM bus is running at 266???
the overcloking feature only affects the FSB (Front Side Bus) it goes up in 1
mhz increments, but the max is 233.
(thats where I am confused when it says it has a 266 MHZ FSB)
In the first part of the book it mentions to make a note of the processors
speed.
then it shows a chart
[ ] 1.0GHz(133X7.5) [ ] 1.13GHz(133X8.5) [ ] 1.2GHz(133X9)
[ ] 1.3GHz((133X10.0 [ ] 1.4GHz(133X10.5)
So my processor is 1.4GHz
Now in the BIOS Setup it has CPU Ratio Setup with options of
6.0X, 6.5X, 7.0X, 8.0X, 9.0X, 9.5X, 10.0X, 10.5X, 11.0X, 11.5X, 12.0X, 13.0X,
14.0X, and AUTO
Mine is currently set on AUTO
But it may be beneficial to set it to 10.5 ???
maybe auto is 10.5 but I don't know
It's an interesting MB, has promise raid controller, which can be disbaled
and used for an additional 4 IDE devices (total 8 IDE devices) WOW
--
Gerald Waugh
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