Quote Originally Posted by patriotaus View Post
I've read you can squeeze more out of the cpu by not relying on the multiplier. but i will try your suggestion. i am not 100 percent sure how i am supposed to find the sweet spot of my cpu and nb.

i've got prime95 running at the moment and its running at 58 degrees. the max is 65 so thats pretty good right? do you mean less then 50c on load or idle. because there is no chance of having it less then 50c because (if i can remember correctly), it sits at 48 degrees at stock load.
I mean load......it all depends on how high you going to try to go. Im watercooled and my cpu does not go higher than 50c at 1.57v.......once it starts to go higher then I get instability.......but I speak from my system......yours may be different. All you can do is test and see not everybody will get the same results.

What I usually do is find the sweet spot for the cpu with the multi then start raising the NB multi to find the highest you can go (2.6ghz-2.8ghz NB) and try to get it stable both together.

Once you know that info you can always lower the multi and use the fsb to reach the same speeds. Im not a fsb overclocker I use multi for everything and it hasnt steer me wrong but you do what you feel more comfortable with.

thing is raising the fsb you have to watch everything at once memory, nb, cpu, htt, unless you go in and lower the multis on all those settings.

More easy to raise the multi on the cpu then raise the multi on the nb then tweak your memry speed and timings!