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ahh right. yes my PC's anti-heat systems arent too advanced as im only at 2.6 so overclocking to like 3.0 would probably be a bit risky :P (i think 3.0 or above requires sleeve fan type thingies)

[Marxist ßastard]

Devices in the computer execute commands only when the power going through an internal circuit is switched from 3.3V to 5V (devices that meet the DDR specification also execute commands when the power coming through that circuit goes from 5V to 3.3V). For the processor, this clock rate is defined by the Front Side Bus clock speed multiplied by the chip's set multiplier. For instance, if you have an FSB of 100 MHz and a multiplier of 10 on a DDR processor, the resulting clock rate is 1 000 MHz, meaning that the processor executes 2 000 000 000 commands per second. Changing the Front Side Bus clock rate and the processor multiplier is called overclocking. This is done to raise the number of commands the processor executes per second past the factory defined limit, because all processors, even those from the same wafer, have differences in the speed they can safely run at. While some can only run a with an FSB set a few MHz above the factory limit, some can run at three times this limit. Now here's some ASCII art:

 

 

 

¯¯|____|¯¯¯¯|____|¯¯¯¯|____|¯¯¯¯|__.......<-- FSB Clock Speed

 

¯|__|¯¯|__|¯¯|__|¯¯|__|¯¯|__|¯¯|__|¯.......<-- Processor Clock Speed

·^··^···^··^··^

·|···|····|···|···|

·|···|····|···|···|

·|···|····|···|···|

·|__¦__.|__¦_..|__________.....-->DDR Command Executions

·····|········|

·····|_____.|______________....-->Normal Command Executions

 

·····Clock Multiplier:·····

················2···············

[Marxist ßastard]

Slow typist + Bad ASCII art = Beaten to the punch by Miltonic

[miltonic]

Heh...That's why I stay away from the ASCII art, I'm to damn slow otherwise. One question for you MB? If your FSB is 100 Mhz and your Multiplier is 10, wouldn't your clock speed be 1000MHz, regardless of DDR? My current system defaults at 200 Mhz FSB, at 14 multiplier = 2800, or 2.8 ghz.

[Marxist ßastard]

Heh... Just woke up, so you can expect those kinds of dumb mistakes.

[D'oh]

I checked out the tweaks page that Marxist suggested. I tried a few of them and so far so good. It hasn't frozen up yet. I'll keep my fingers crossed. Thanks again for the heads up dude.