OC stability

[Twyst]

I'm curious which results in a more stable system?

Overclocking through the FSB and adjusting the Vcore to make it stable and leave the multiplier along, or chaning the multiplier so that the FSB can stay at a lower setting?

Any comments are more than welcome.


My stats:

AMD Athlon 900mhz @930mhz
Soyo K7vta motherboard with KT266a
256mb PC133 SDRAM
Geforce 2mx/400 64mb
Idle temp=80F Fullload=109F

[Thelemac]

There's no real way to overclock with a gurantee of more stability. What I recommend to most people is to up the FSB as far as they can stably and then up the multiplier as much as they can stabley. It's all in the testing for stability after every bump in speed that guarantees stability.

The best way that I've heard to test stability is to run Prime95 for a half hour or so and then run 3DMark right away. If you don't get any round off errors and you don't crash at all, you should be set to go. :)

[Twyst]

Cool thanks for the info.

How about temp?

I know raising the Vcore can raise the temp some, does either FSB or multiplier raise the temp more than the other? Or is that also pretty unique to each computer?

I'm operating on very little practical overclocking experience right now so please forigve stupid questions.
:)