FSB performance increase CPU Clock?

altivec_2.0

I need some FSB questions answerd.



The higher the FSB, the higher the CPU is going to run. I found a "PC" board which I could overclock the FSB from 800Mhz to 1.2Ghz. How much of an effect would that have on a 3Ghz P4?



My neighbors a big gamer and wants me to build him a nice system. Money really isn't an issue. Cooling won't be a problem, I've found some pretty nice stuff to cool it with.



The two boards I'm deciding on for him is the Abit IC7-MAX3 and the Albatron PX875P Pro. Abit has a better reputation for overclocking, but it doesn't say how much you can overclock the board. Does anyone have any suggestions between the two boards.



Alot of other things take into account to like Cpu voltage, memory clock speed, and clock multipliers, I'm not worried about those, I'm just stuck on FSB.



I know this probably doesn't belong in a Mac forum, but I can't find any good PC forums.





http://www.albatron.com.tw/english/i....asp?pro_id=98

http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/...es=1&model=130

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As for the PC forum...

http://forum.pcmech.com/



Oh and you don't want to overclock the FSB to 1.2 Ghz... it will not boot (unless you are using some crazy cooling and your chip can clock that high). Remember that the P4's FSB is quadpumped... IOW it is a 4 x 200Mhz bus. So when you overclock the FSB by one Mhz it will jump by 4 overall.



With a 3Ghz processer I would not overclock... it is fine for now.

wmf

The guy who's working on the next processor design for Apple doesn't know much about buses, eh? :-)



I agree that overclocking from 800MHz to 1200MHz is insane; the processor would be running at 4.5GHz. Maybe you can overclock 20% if you're lucky.