As anyone who has tried to OC a Athlon or Duron via the FSB has known, you can't go more than a few Mhz before you get an unstable system. The DDR bus just doesn't tolerate OCing. To get around this the wonderful Golden Fingers and Golden Bridges have allowed tweakers to play around with the multipliers. To the joy of many, 800, 900, and 1Ghz can be acheived with the "lowly" Duron.
Chipzilla on the otherhand clock locks the processor so adjusting the FSB is th eonly way to go. The P4 will be running at quad data rate. If history has been any indication, we will not be able to OC more than a few Mhz before BSODs and lockups.
If this is true than long live AMD. I don't plan on getting a P4 but it will certainly make me thing twice about getting one.
Anyone else have thoughts on the issue? I could be way off here.
Windogg
Chipzilla on the otherhand clock locks the processor so adjusting the FSB is th eonly way to go. The P4 will be running at quad data rate. If history has been any indication, we will not be able to OC more than a few Mhz before BSODs and lockups.
If this is true than long live AMD. I don't plan on getting a P4 but it will certainly make me thing twice about getting one.
Anyone else have thoughts on the issue? I could be way off here.
Windogg