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My overclock: Comments from the experienced w/ DualCore AMD Athlon64 x2 CPU users...

Alec§taar

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AMD Athlon64 x2 4800+,(2827.2mhz @ 257 FSB x 11 multiplier):

You should be able to go a little bit futher with yur 4800 i just bought the 4200 and its siting at 2.7 ghz now my memory wont go much futher ,so ill have to get some new memory so i can push it further...Also water cooling is in the pipelines .But at the moment i am happy with 2.7 ghz :p

http://img82.imageshack.us/my.php?image=kuva050bz2.jpg

sorry its a bit Large.. the pic...:laugh:

It's ok, pictures backup your statements & are verifiers we can use.

I only hit 923.6 HT Link vs. your 983.1 HT Link (new in CPU-z 1.36 apparently vs. the older one's screenshots I used above) & I can only go 1.5V on core too... I think my mobo has limits yours may not? I don't know...

* Memory timings/tab data, Judas: Can you provide a screenshot of those??

Thanks! I ask for this, because the guys here are pretty fairly convinced THAT (the RAM I use) is my MAJOR 'detractor/barrier' to higher o/c's, & the RAM I use is not "special overclocker-ready" type RAM... using dividers & what-not here.

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You might be able to do better, there, as I see a:

2.5-4-4-8-16-2T-16

Timing chain number @ a 2T commandrate (nice 254++ RAM-mhz return speed too over there)...

From what I heard here, going from 2t - 1t yields a big speed gain, memory-wise...

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Yes and no. If you think in terms of memory read speeds, they remain virtually uneffected by a 2T command rate, if however you consider write speeds, thats where 2T takes its toll. Having a huge pool of bandwidth is useless without fetch times being acceptable. A better example is to take say a system with 7GB\s of bandwidth available, but operating at 2T, that in turn lowers write speeds vs 1T.

Overall a system operating under 1T, but perhaps with slightly more lax timings than that of the system running 2T, will still outperform the 2T system. Why? because CPUs can't actively utilise all available bandwidth to them anyway, so while a system running 2T has 7GB\s and the 1T has say 6.7GB\s read bandwidth, the 2T system is no match in write operations (the switching of system data to and from memory) so while the 2T read bandwidth looks "impressive", its nowhere near as efficient as the system running 1T.

Sorry if thats not that clearstill, but it would take a hell of a long post explaining everything precisely.
 
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