FSB and Muliplier on ABIT KT7

[Ben88]

Can you change the FSB and multiplier settings in Abit's KT7 Bios?

Thanks

 

[Forgiven]

Yes you can. I have to ask why you want to though. If it to speed up peripherals I would say go for it. Remember the big key is to keep your memory at a CAS level of 2 so if you have to sacrifice that it won't be worth it in overall system performance.

KT7Raid
600@1G
Maxtor30.7 ata 100
300W Sparkle
Toshiba generic PC 133
running CAS2 at 133

 

[Ben88]

I thought that in order to overclock, I had to change both the FSB and the multiplier setting. Was I wrong in my assumption?

 

[rockstar]

Hi!
To overclock a t-bird or athlon, your best bet is to do "the pencil trick" (or conductive pen) to unlock the multiplier. Once unlocked, you will be able to run at whatever default speed your particular cpu can reach. You can also select "user defined" in the kt7 softmenu3 bios to specify a multiplier and/or FSB speeds. I have not had much luck increasing my FSB though, anyone else?
So technically, if you are only choosing a different multiplier (and you are stable) then you are still running the cpu/chipset within its specs and I would argue that you are not really overclocking at all. The cpu (multiplier) was chosen to be locked at a particular speed due to price, demand, and stability. Anyway, I think its still generally thought that you are overclocking if you have unlocked your cpu, increased the multiplier, but don't increase the FSB. To make a long story just a little bit longer...
...it will be faster when you overclock on your abit kt7!

 

[Technonut]

I get a great performance boost on my 800 T-Bird running the multiplier at 900, and the FSB at 105/35 + 4 =109. WCPUID reports The T-Bird running at 982MHz.

 

[tigger80]

you don't have to change both FSB and multiplier. I would change multiplier first, then up the fsb a little, but upping fsb will overclock the rest of your pci/agp cards