FSB bios question

W4R-H1LDW4R-H1LD Chesterfield VA
edited December 2004 in Hardware
If you were going to overclock a pc to play online fps games is either one of the following ways of overclocking better than the other and if so why? Also when you up the fsb this much does it mess with vid card? thx in advance :D

11x200fsb or 10x220fsb runs stable at the 220 and is in dual channel

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  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited December 2004
    In your case, using the A7N8X mobo which has locked pci and agp busses, going with the 10 X 220 fsb would be faster due to the greater memory bandwidth provided by the higher fsb speed. Since the nf2 chipset can lock the pci and agp bus speeds, you don't run into problems with your vid cards and hard drives from out of spec bus speeds that hapopen on most Via chipsets when overclocking the fsb.
  • W4R-H1LDW4R-H1LD Chesterfield VA
    edited December 2004
    Thx for the info Muddocktor! I have two more questions this one is for the memory frequency I have it on auto but the selections available are the following = by SPD then it goes down the list 50,66,75,80,83,100,120,125,133,150,166,200 is auto the best or ?

    The second question is on the AGP frequency ive got that one set to Auto as well, but the selections available are the following, 50.66.67.68.etc all the way up to 100mhz. what is the best one to pick?

    Thanks again for the help!! :thumbsup:
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited December 2004
    I'm looking on my old rev 1.04 A7N8X-Dlx in bios and looking up what you are asking.

    I run my memory set at 100%, which is talking about percentage of the fsb speed. In my case, both the fsb and mem speed are at 178 running synchronously. As long as you have ddr in your mobo that can run the same speed as the fsb, run it at 100% so they run in sych mode, which is best.

    I keep my AGP set at 66, which insures that the AGP and PCI busses are locked at spec speeds. If your vid card can handle overclocked AGP speeds, then you will see a slight improvement with the vid card. A lot of the old geforce and tnt vid cards could tolerate a highly overclocked agp bus but ATI cards don't tolerate an out-of-spec AGP bus nearly as good. I couldn't tell you how modern Nvidia cards handle an overclocked AGP bus though as the most modern Nvidia card I own is a GF3 Ti 500.
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