ok, let me explain further.....
your cpu wants or better yet, needs, more memory speed then you will ever be able to give it on the mobo listed above.
infact, at 133fsb you will need to run the memory at 4x the FSB speed to get the "full" performance of the cpu.
in other words you are running a 533 bus cpu, but with pc2700 and the 3/4 ratio at 133fsb, your mem speed will be 354 (bus).
as you can see, your memory is just not fast enough to keep up with the cpu speed. and on this mobo, like all sigle DDR mobos, it never will.
now, this is the result, when not OCing at all.
and yes, your memory is at it's max speed already.
you could OC the cpu and use the 1/1 ratio...your results will be that you can get the cpu up around 166fsb, but your mem speed never increases in any way...thus you loose even more bandwith,
and while your now OCed system is faster then stock, I'll bet it's not by much.
this will be about the max OC you'll be able to do with the memory you picked out.
yes you may be able to OC the memory some, but how much???
if you will be able to use the 4/3 ratio, then yes you can OC the cpu to say a higher fsb if the cpu will let you.
yet your cpu bus speed is far higher then you mem bus....thus you may not see any large increase in speed then running at stock and 3/4 ratio.
with faster memory, you'll have more options to OC higher as well as have more bandwith at a time when you'll never have enough.
it's now time to start reading some of the old posts here.
it seems that you may think that just increasing the FSB is all it takes to have a faster system. this is only half true.
your memory speed needs to get faster as well.
yet what your saying is that you want to OC the cpu but keep the mem speed the same or lower as you get higher and higher on the FSB.
mica
