xp1700+ & ddr333 as ddr266

[rizzo56]

i've been out of the hardware scene for about 2 years (last overclock was an duron 600 @ 900mhz) so forgive me if this seems obvious. I upgraded my old ecs k7s5a & xp1700+ (thoroughbred 266mhz fsb 384k .13u 1.50v 1467) frys combo with an abit nf7-s v2 and ddr333 memory. the MB says it is ddr266. do i have bad ram or is that how it is suppose to be since the xp1700 is a 266mhz fsb cpu?

with my new board, i am using artic silver 3 and a volcano 12 hsf. I had been running the cpu for over a year with the stock amd fan on the ecs board. what kind of overclocking can i do & how? do i just raise the fsb to 166 and leave the multiplier alone?

 

[myocardia]

What kind of 1700 is it? Is it a T-bred B, a T-bred A, or a Palomino? If it's either of the last two, you might not make it up to 166fsb without lowering the multiplier, because they only average about a 200mhz overclock. If it's a T-bred B, you should have gotten at least PC3200 ram, but almost every one of the T-bred B's will do a minimum of 200mhz fsb. Anyway, what most of us do with an unlocked chip is lower the multi down to 8 or 9x, and see how high the chip's fsb will go, then find a higher multi that will give the highest clock speed, with the highest fsb. Good luck.

 

[Budman]

Your motherboard is probably running at a 1:1 ratio,because your cpu is 133mhz it's running your ram at 133mhz so that's why it's saying it is DDR266.

If you want to run your ram to DDR333 up your FSB (overclock the cpu) or just up the mem ratio.