Hi everyone.
I have a little problem, I wasn't very careful when I bought this PC back in the day before so I bought a mobo little incompatible with some stuff. My Motherboard is 945PL-S3P
1-Supports up to FSB 1066 for cpu's only, while my e8400 is FSB 1333, no biggie fixed by oc'ing, see my thread for more info if you'd like http://www.techist.com/forums/f77/e8400-3-00-ghz-cpu-running-2-4-ghz-only-235826/
Now I have another problem, my 2 x 2gb DDR2 ram should run at 800 MHz, but max of my mobo is 667 MHz, and a friend told me even if you could get it to run 800 MHz, 800/2 = 400 MHz ie not equal to CPU bus speed and will cause it to bottleneck sometimes.
My question is, can I overclock my rams to 400 MHz ( ie its stock speed ), and safely overclock my CPU more to 3.6 GHz ( since it was actually overclocked from 2.4 GHz to its stock due to the FSB problem, here's the thread link again that explains the problem http://www.techist.com/forums/f77/e8400-3-00-ghz-cpu-running-2-4-ghz-only-235826/ ).
And if it's not possible to push my CPU that far, can't I change its bus speed to 400 MHz but lowen its multiplier from 9 to 8, causing it to run at 3.2 Ghz?
Keep in mind, my CPU cooler isn't stock but isn't really a good one either, this thing I bought for like 6 bucks ( because my stock cooler went kaboom and the shop gave me this when I went to it ).
Thanks everyone.
P.S If you need pictures of CPU-Z or any other app, please tell me
I have a little problem, I wasn't very careful when I bought this PC back in the day before so I bought a mobo little incompatible with some stuff. My Motherboard is 945PL-S3P
1-Supports up to FSB 1066 for cpu's only, while my e8400 is FSB 1333, no biggie fixed by oc'ing, see my thread for more info if you'd like http://www.techist.com/forums/f77/e8400-3-00-ghz-cpu-running-2-4-ghz-only-235826/
Now I have another problem, my 2 x 2gb DDR2 ram should run at 800 MHz, but max of my mobo is 667 MHz, and a friend told me even if you could get it to run 800 MHz, 800/2 = 400 MHz ie not equal to CPU bus speed and will cause it to bottleneck sometimes.
My question is, can I overclock my rams to 400 MHz ( ie its stock speed ), and safely overclock my CPU more to 3.6 GHz ( since it was actually overclocked from 2.4 GHz to its stock due to the FSB problem, here's the thread link again that explains the problem http://www.techist.com/forums/f77/e8400-3-00-ghz-cpu-running-2-4-ghz-only-235826/ ).
And if it's not possible to push my CPU that far, can't I change its bus speed to 400 MHz but lowen its multiplier from 9 to 8, causing it to run at 3.2 Ghz?
Keep in mind, my CPU cooler isn't stock but isn't really a good one either, this thing I bought for like 6 bucks ( because my stock cooler went kaboom and the shop gave me this when I went to it ).
Thanks everyone.
P.S If you need pictures of CPU-Z or any other app, please tell me