FSB on an AMD 2000+

[Kenny]

It`s me again! Has anyone tried to get (or managed to get) a 2000+ XP to boot at a FSB of 166MHZ under air-cooling conditions? e.g. if the multiplier was lowered or... something..


Cheers

Kenny

 

[Techy]

depends what mobo

 

[Kenny]

ah. would be an asus A7V8X-X.

 

[ChristopherP]

What exactly does the multiplier do? My friend was asking about it today. Having only ever overclocked an Intel machine and not an AMD i was curious as to what it does?

 

[Kenny]

the frequency of the CPU is the FSB multiplied by the... err.... multiplier. beyond that, i have no clue.

 

[Kenny]

You knew that bit already, didn`t you? sorry.

 

[ChristopherP]

lol yeah i knew that bit for example the multiplier on my CPU i have at the mo is 14 because the FSB is 200MHz (quad pumped to 800) so the 2 timsed by each other = 2800MHz

So changing the multiplier does what then? i guess it leaves the memory at the same speed and also the FSB... so effectivly you could up the multiplier of an Athlon 2500 to a 3200 and it would be identical every way - same FSB and therefore same RAM?

hmm...

 

[ChristopherP]

that was some brainwork for ya

 

[Kenny]

spot on sir. If/ when I get my fingers out and buy this damn mobo, I might try to con my flatmate out of his spare 2500+ and do that very thing....

 

[ChristopherP]

lol!

sounds like a plan stan