any guides or articles on MCH and ICH tuning

[dsb1829]

Anyone come across any good guides or articles on OC strategy for the lesser talked of motherboard voltages? I have a stable OC running, but can also post at higher frequencies. I think that tuning of the other board voltages may just get my higher clock stable.

Most say bump MCH by 1-3 steps and ICH by a step, but I haven't seen anyone really post any backup or guidance to these suggestions. Any help here appreciated

 

[Albuquerque]

Anand did an article on MCH for the X38 chipset; most of the "theory" there should come straight across: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=3239

Also go looking for their QX9650 overclocking article, as the first eight or ten pages all deal with system-level tweaking before they even touch the CPU.

 

[dsb1829]

I didn't get much out of that article, but the reference article that it links to is pretty great...
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3208&p=4

thanks for the hint

 

[jaivyjay]

thanks Albuquerque and dsb1829

 

[Albuquerque]

Yeha, good catch DSB Anand has been putting up some excellent technical articles over the last six months.

 

[dsb1829]

I should probably clarify my "didn't get much" comment. That article is very heavy on the ddr3 ram which is running at speeds out of the realm of possibility for my ram. My GSkill 800MHz will run at 1000MHz just fine though. I was scouting around last night to find out more on sub-timings and I came across a good article comparing tighter timing vs. overclock (should have bookmarked it).