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FSB Overclocking

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gwai lo

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Kind of hard coming up with a title for this thread, but I think that kind of works.

So if I were to test a certain FSB on my setup and find that it's stable, i.e. 421×6. Logically..if I were to bump my multi to 9.5 my tweaks would be focused around the processor. I know overclocking isn't really logical all the time, but is this notion affirmed by past overclocking experiences?

Reason being, I just got an E7200 and I'm hoping to push to 4 GHz. As implied earlier, I've got 421 stable at 6x, 8x, and 9x. However, it's requiring increasingly more vcore and I really don't want to push over 1.4v. At 390×9.5 now with 1.35v. I know I can just try it (I plan on doing it eventually, but I'm just sitting here waiting for Orthos to fail, so until it does I don't have anything better to do really), but I was just curious as to what other people have seen.

Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I had a hard time coming up with a search term/phrase.
 
gwai lo said:
Logically..if I were to bump my multi to 9.5 my tweaks would be focused around the processor. I know overclocking isn't really logical all the time, but is this notion affirmed by past overclocking experiences?
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Not really. Overclocking works in weird ways, so you often have to play around with both the FSB and the multiplier to get the most out of a chip. That said, you should still have a bit of headroom with your E7200. I don't recommend you take it to 1.4v or higher, but 1.37-38v should be perfectly safe for you to try and get some higher stable speeds with.
 
Yeah I figured, just wanted someone else to tell me the same. :p

Right now I'm at 400×9.5 stable with 1.36 vcore idle, I didn't plan on going over 1.4v as this is my last purchase planned until 2010 when I do a full system overhaul..so I wanted it to last. Hopefully i can squeeze the extra 200 MHz without having to go more than 0.02 bump in vcore, because firing up CPU-Z to see "4 GHz" is just too awesome.

Thanks for the reply.
 
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