BF2S Forums Help Jbrar with overclocking

You still use the Default Windows Backround??

Where's all the techies tonight?

I looked at the manual for your mobo and it has very limited options for overclocking. One thing in particular that would make me not overclock using that board is under the PCI/AGP Frequency setting it says "Values Depend On CPU Host Frequency." What this means is that any change made to the CPU's speed will also affect the PCI/AGP bus speed, which would be bad. Overclocking them almost never leads to any gain, and almost always causes stability problems.

I also Googled some reviews on your board and the consensus is it's not built for overclocking.

Thanks for bringing that to my attention stillhouse, the first page on google i found for my mobo:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1597

It seems to say that I probably won't be able to go any higher than 200 fsb, before seeing instability. My original intention was to just get to 175 - 180 fsb, giving me about a .1 ghz increase, not much, but i'd like to see the difference if any.

(If I took the info in wrong from that site, please tell me.)

It's an AMD, the FSB remains at 200MHz no matter what. you adjust the multiplier.

LT.Victim wrote:

You still use the Default Windows Backround??

lol

DDR400 RAM has an effective clock speed of 400MHz, but a real clock speed of 200MHz. DDR = Double Data Rate. Google it if you want to know more about how it works.

   " leetkyle: It's an AMD, the FSB remains at 200MHz no matter what. you adjust the multiplier."

Hmm...funny...cause I have an AMD, and my FSB is running at 230MHz...guess that proves you wrong. You cannot raise the multiplier on an AMD chip unless you have one of the FX series. With normal AMD chips you can only lower the multiplier, not raise it, which won't do you any good at all.

Now, if you do raise the FSB you will be raising the memory bus aswell. So say you raise the FSB to 230MHz, your RAM will be running at 230MHz now. Value RAM usually doesn't overclock well, so you'll probally need to set up a FSB:DRAM divider. You can do this one of two ways, some motherboards are different than others.

The first way is to find the DRAM clock speed itself, and change it to say DDR333 speeds. It will now run at 166MHz, so if you overclock the FSB to 230MHz, the RAM will run at 196MHz, so you're just about at the stock memory speed, but your CPU is running faster.

Make sure if you have the option to lock the PCI/AGP bus, that you do so, as if you overclock them it will screw up.

Now, after writing all that, I realized you were running a AMD XP chip, so none of that may be true for you. However, read it as something may help you anyway. I wrote that based on AMD 64-bit chips.

you are running a divider

just move fsb up duh