Motherboard, Memory, & CPU Overclocking Guide

[deeppow]

Hope it is of use to a few of you. Suggestions for improvement and corrections are very welcome. Particularly improvements related to Intel systems are needed.


Motherboard, Memory, and CPU Overclocking Guide. If you find broken links please let me know.


Table of Content
Preface
Understanding Overclocking
A Simple Perspective of Overclocking
A Simple Overview of Memory
....Predominant RAM Types
....Mob-RAM Coupling and Their Effect on Overclocking
The Mechanics - Overclocking the Motherboard, FSB, and CPU
....Determining the Maximum FSB for nForce2
....Determining the Maximum Memory Speed
....Determining the Maximum CPU Speed
....Locked CPU
....PCI and AGP Buses
Testing
Results - A Couple Initial Overclock
....A nForce2 Motherboard
........How Well Does Dual DDR Work in Asynchronous Mode?
........How Well Does Dual DDR Work in Synchronous Mode?
........Memory Settings - Effect on Overclocking for Dual Channel
........Final Overclock of My nForce2
....A KT333 Motherboard
........Overclocking the KT333 FSB
........Memory Settings and Their Effect on Overclocking
Summary
Caution
Contributors
Useful Links
Known Links to this Guide

[Tin]

lookin pretty good .

[deeppow]

thanks

[deeppow]

Current revised Table of Content


Table of Content
Preface
Where to Begin
Understanding Overclocking
Simple Overviews
....Overclocking
....BIOS
....Memory
........Predominant RAM Types
........Mob-RAM Coupling and Their Effect on Overclocking
The Mechanics - Overclocking the Motherboard, FSB, and CPU
....Determining the Maximum FSB for nForce2
....Determining the Maximum Memory Speed
....Determining the Maximum CPU Speed
....Locked CPU
....PCI and AGP Buses
Testing
Results - A Couple Initial Overclock
....A nForce2 Motherboard
........How Well Does Dual DDR Work in Asynchronous Mode?
........How Well Does Dual DDR Work in Synchronous Mode?
........Memory Settings - Effect on Overclocking for Dual Channel
........Final Overclock of My nForce2
....A KT333 Motherboard
........Overclocking the KT333 FSB
........Memory Settings and Their Effect on Overclocking
Summary
Caution
Contributors
Useful Links
Known Links to this Guide


Currently working on a cooling section due to the importance of cooling in achieving a higher overclock. Following the general philosophy of the guide, the cooling section will be basic in nature aimed at providing the users with the framework that should allow them to undertake more detailed investigation.

[Panama Red]

Think I stole that link from ABxzone a while back and posted it here. Did you get a pm from me over there?

edit: sure looks the same

http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.p...clocking+guide

[deeppow]

Yes, got your PM PR. Don't remember which forum but hope your folks here find it of some use. PLUS, I certainly don't think you stole it. I wrote the original to help newbies and I'm glad whenever and where ever it can be of use.

FYI, I continue to update the guide on a fairly regular basis. I don't seem able to edit the original post so I assume PCMech has some kinda time limit for edits of a post. Can you replace the TOC in the original post with the new TOC I posted above?

Thanks.

[Panama Red]

Don't think we need to replace the old one. It probably died a natual death til I dug it up again. Let's see what kind of reaction we get to this post and maybe we'll have to sticky it.

[deeppow]

Originally Posted by Panama Red edit: sure looks the same http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.p...clocking+guide

Yes, the link is the same but I've changed the content a reasonable amount. Thus my question about updating the table of content.

Not a big deal. Let it shake out regarding it usefulness to folks as you suggest.