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emericanchaos · 07-15-03, 01:06 PM

with folding does it matter how you overclock the cpu? is it better to have a high multi or high fsb? or doesn't it matter as long as you have a high clock?

OC-overkill · 07-15-03, 01:17 PM

I think that it wouldnt matter as long as the end GHz are the same. However, if you can keep your mem insync with the fsb, then the higher fsb will be alittle better in mem intense apps. But thats just my opinion....

Turd Furguson · 07-15-03, 02:32 PM

If I can remember this correctly, when you fold, you need processor power. Your FSB won't help very very much. Maybe a minimal gain.

OCn00b · 07-16-03, 01:18 PM

The fsb does help with gromacs if i remember right, from the added bandwidth. Overall though, it doesn't matter how you overclock it, it's the total mhz that matters.

Sterculus · 07-16-03, 02:48 PM

I think that high FSB will help, but no big difference. Maybe sometime I will run some tests and see.

bubba gump · 07-16-03, 03:01 PM

High FSB allows for more output, becuase the multiplier really has no say in anything except for the end MHz/GHz, whereas a higher FSB means more work ability. This is what I think came from a past thread on this...not sure if it's true information I say, but I always go for a high fsb and a lower multi...

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noCode · 07-16-03, 03:54 PM

High FSB is always the best goal. FSB gives memory bandwidht AND CPU speed. Multiplier only gives CPU speed. But for most cases, go for the spot that gives you highest CPU speed. Memory bandwidth gives preformance increase, but not as much so that it is worth lowering your CPU speed in order to get it.

RoadWarrior · 07-16-03, 05:22 PM

Hi noCode, a quiet word about your sig before a moderator or administrator has a noisy word about your sig

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The only links allowed to be in a sig for regular members without special dispensation are links to overclockers.com sanctioned sites such as forum threads the team pages etc, so 2 of your links are okay. I see the other one, despite it's suggestive URL, is only your personal computers page, the best place to put that is the section in your profile for your webpage, which will then display a www button under your posts. I am unsure whether one is disallowed from displaying an email address in ones sig, but there's also a place in the profile for that, where you can select your email address to be viewable to everybody, that adds another button I think.

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noCode · 07-17-03, 02:37 AM

Geee! Didn't know that, will remove them. Thanks for the warning. Sorry, and i must point out that i DO have read the rules, must just have forgotten that part.

PS. Yes, ain't that domain name great?

You should see the looks on peoples faces when you give them that email address!

07-15-03, 01:06 PM	Thread Starter #1
emericanchaos Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Williamsport, PA	OC'ing for folding with folding does it matter how you overclock the cpu? is it better to have a high multi or high fsb? or doesn't it matter as long as you have a high clock? __________________ xp4000+ crap MSI board 2GB XMMS x700xt not worth OCing with this board.
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OC-overkill Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Bay Area	I think that it wouldnt matter as long as the end GHz are the same. However, if you can keep your mem insync with the fsb, then the higher fsb will be alittle better in mem intense apps. But thats just my opinion....
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07-15-03, 02:32 PM	#3
Turd Furguson Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Ashland, KY	If I can remember this correctly, when you fold, you need processor power. Your FSB won't help very very much. Maybe a minimal gain. __________________ "When the rich wage war it's the poor who die." - LP
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07-16-03, 01:18 PM	#4
OCn00b Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Virginia	The fsb does help with gromacs if i remember right, from the added bandwidth. Overall though, it doesn't matter how you overclock it, it's the total mhz that matters. __________________ "If anyone asks me why he should love his neighbor, I would not know how to answer him, and I could only ask in my turn why he should pose such a question. It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring." -Alfred Adler
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Sterculus Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Seattle	I think that high FSB will help, but no big difference. Maybe sometime I will run some tests and see.
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07-16-03, 03:01 PM	#6
bubba gump Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: CA, USA	High FSB allows for more output, becuase the multiplier really has no say in anything except for the end MHz/GHz, whereas a higher FSB means more work ability. This is what I think came from a past thread on this...not sure if it's true information I say, but I always go for a high fsb and a lower multi... Fold and Frag on Brian
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07-16-03, 03:54 PM	#7
noCode Registered Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Sweden!	High FSB is always the best goal. FSB gives memory bandwidht AND CPU speed. Multiplier only gives CPU speed. But for most cases, go for the spot that gives you highest CPU speed. Memory bandwidth gives preformance increase, but not as much so that it is worth lowering your CPU speed in order to get it.
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07-16-03, 05:22 PM	#8
RoadWarrior Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada	Hi noCode, a quiet word about your sig before a moderator or administrator has a noisy word about your sig .... The only links allowed to be in a sig for regular members without special dispensation are links to overclockers.com sanctioned sites such as forum threads the team pages etc, so 2 of your links are okay. I see the other one, despite it's suggestive URL, is only your personal computers page, the best place to put that is the section in your profile for your webpage, which will then display a www button under your posts. I am unsure whether one is disallowed from displaying an email address in ones sig, but there's also a place in the profile for that, where you can select your email address to be viewable to everybody, that adds another button I think. regards, Road Warrior __________________ Folder in disgrace. Folding rigs may be back online eventually, just as soon as real life gives me enough breaks. Black Belt Ubercloxx0r "Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous Folders have fallen or may fall into the grip of OCAU and all the odious apparatus of [H]ardOCP rule, we shall not flag or fail." "We shall go on to the end, we shall fold on the Newcastles, we shall fold on the Northwoods and Prescotts, we shall fold with growing confidence and growing strength on Venice, we shall defend our Forum, whatever the cost may be, we shall fold on the Winchesters, we shall fold on the Bartons, we shall fold on the Applebreds and Thunderbirds, we shall fold on the Coppermines; we shall never surrender!"
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07-17-03, 02:37 AM	#9
noCode Registered Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Sweden!	Geee! Didn't know that, will remove them. Thanks for the warning. Sorry, and i must point out that i DO have read the rules, must just have forgotten that part. PS. Yes, ain't that domain name great? You should see the looks on peoples faces when you give them that email address!
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