Quote Originally Posted by Jhya
I dont see what is the big deal with high HTT?? it's the FINAL hyper transport speed that matters for the overall performance of the system.

So with 390HTT, the LDT must either be 3x or 2x. With an LDT of 3, 3x390= 1170MHz, it is very unlikely since it's way above nvidia spec'd 1000MHz. So you most likely will use your LDT at 2X for 2x390HTT = 780 MHz, which is not a big accomplishment overall.

For memory overclock with 390HTT, you most likely will not be running your RAMs sync'd. (I have not seen anyone with 390MHz in memory overclock posted). So, the only ram options are to use 166 or 133 settings in the BIOS. With a 166 setting your memory speed would be 324 MHz (390HTT*166/200). Even that is highly unlikely, unless you go with the gskill 4800 sticks which only comes in 256 flavors for 2x256=512MB max).

So the most logical choice would be 133 memory setting in BIOS which is 390HTT*133/200 = 260MHz memory speed. I have seen people with much higher memory speeds than that!

So basically, running 390HTT is no big deal and is not such an impressive accomplishment in overclocking. It just sounds impressive on paper.
HTT isn't that important for A64, if you look at the benchmarks. The only reason high HTT is nice is because it gives people more options on how to run their chip at it's best