Not quite, a good value is whatever frequency you find you need for the system to behave right. Personally I've used upto 116mhz, with Vsb at 1.125v.
I always found at 481FSB with mine 110-112mhz was the sweet spot where everything worked right, and ICH9R raid0 performance was most consistent. I use HD Tune Pro to graph the Raid0 performance for my array at each 1mhz step, and concluded that 112mhz was the frequency where performance finished increasing. Any higher resulted in the SB choking from bus limitations, basically like it would spike high then suddenly drop off rapidly until the SB could catch up with the amount of data on the DMI link, then it would spike high again and repeat. In my case I think I found the SB's limit.




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