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[VisualEyes]

Hi guys i came across ur forum and read a few things, u lot seem to b well educated on this matter. I am seeking a bit of advice really. I get really confused with fsb clock speeds multipliers :o it all is too much for my small brain too handle and i was wondering if any helpful person with a bit of time on his\her hands could point me in the right direction :D Well basically if I give you my spec could you tell me waht i could do to optimise it as in overclock

AMD 2200xp
Gigabyte gva7xp
2x 256 ddr 3200 400mhz (i dont know what ram should be set at)
Winbond ram btw and one is twinmos winbond
MSI Gf4 ti4600 128 ddr
current fsb is 133mhz if that is the fsb it has 100/133/166 switches
it wont boot on 166
my bios is f5 i have tried the new ones but for some reason a game i play crashes out when i have this on game was AAO
SB Audigy Platinum
:o well thx all I would appricate if someone has the same setup to help me out
Vis

[FKF]

I have a very similar setup, except I have a 2100+, and I have the F9 bios. I suspect your CPU is a TBred-A whch quite possibly wont run at 166FSB. Find some uber-n00b and swap your CPU for a TBred-B 1800/2100, flick that FSB switch and run it at 166. Then crank the FSB up a few MHz at a time until something breaks ;)

[Ragnor]

/brain dump...

It basically goes like this...

cpu multiplier X FSB = cpu mhz

Thus there are 2 ways to affect the clock speed:

1) Changing the multiplier
2) Changing the FSB

Your AthlonXP 2200 runs at 1.8ghz aka mulitper: 13.5 X fsb: 133.33mhz

... overclocking involves increasing (or decreasing) the multiplier and increasing the fsb..

fsb affects more then just the cpu.. your agp and pci cards run at a speed dervived from the fsb.

eg: agp runs at 66mhz which is 1/2 a fsb of 133mhz.. PCI runs at 33mhz which is 1/4 of 133mhz..

Older motherboards use such dividers to calculate agp and pci speed.. so if you increased the fsb it increased the agp and pci beyond spec which was generally a bad thing... at 166mhz bigger dividers kicked in.. return the agp and pci speed to spec..

on newer motherboards like the nforce2 the agp anf pci speeds are fixed..

/end brain dump