FSB vs Multiplier

[x2ThorsHammer2x]

I decided to change the multiplier and FSB setting in my bios around and was a little suprised to see the results. I wasn't trying to overclock and the settings that I used equated to be close the the initial setting of 2158. It was set up for 13x 166. I have an AMD XP 2700 and am running with half decent pc3200 ram. I did some benchmarking and found that the best results where when i set it up as 11x 190, which is actually 40MHz lower. So the question is, is it better to have a high multiplier and lower FSB or higher FSB and lower multiplier? I mean i can read the results for myself, but in real applications does it even matter? Thanks.

 

[Rapsven]

Lower FSB==More bandwith.

Bandwith is good.

Here's a rule of thumb in overclocking:

Lower your multiplier (if you can) and get the highest FSB possible, then turn up the multiplier as far as you can go.

Well, that's a rule of thumb in XP-M overclocking I guess. You can turn down your multiplier on the A64s, but not up.

 

[thursday22dp]

id go with lower multi higher fsb , did you loosen your memory?

 

[x2ThorsHammer2x]

Yeah, I think i loosened my memory, but its been awhile.