Hi. My friend bought a new computer with AMD 3000 64 bit processor, 512 MB DDR 400Mhz.
I get into its BIOS setup screen, just to check what is going on there. So it reports that the CPU is currently set to the 200 MHz FSB, and memory as well, of course, and the total CPU core frequency is 1800 MHz.
There is an option to set the FSB clock to 400 Mhz. So I sure it will be usefull to do so, it will double the core clock, and I'm pretty sure it isn't an "overclock for such CPU to work in 3600 MHz frequency. But, if I If I change the FSB from 200 to 400 Mhz, "Spread Spectrum" option below this line became disabled.
Does anyone know what does the "Spread Spectrum" do, and is it worth to disable it and go to the 400 FSB and memory clock?
Comp specs:
-CPU: 3000 AMD K8 64BIT S939 512K
-Mother Board: GIGABYTE GA-K8NF-939 HyperTransport Technology \ AMD Atlon 64 FX \ PCI EXPRESS X16
2PCI EXPRESSx16 \ DUAL CHANNEL DDR \ USB 2.0 \ NVIDIA nForce4 4X \ 4xSerial ATA \ 3xPci
-Memory: MB DDR 400Mhz 512 2x256MB DDR 400MHZ
-Hard Drive: WESTERN DIGITAL \ HITACHI 80GB SERIAL ATA 8MB CACHE
-CD Drive: DVDRW TOSHIBA/SONY X16
-Video Card: PCI EXPRESS X16 GeForce PCX-6200 256MB TURBO CACHE DDR+ TV DVI OUT NVIDIA
-Sound Blaster: Realtek ALC850 Audio AC97 Codec Audio 8-channel
-2x IEEE 1394B FIREWIRE
-Ethernet 10/100Mb LAN CICADA8201 Gigabit LAN PHY chip
-Case: (USBx2 front) MIDI ATX P4 2-FAN 450W
Thanks
-AndreiD.
I get into its BIOS setup screen, just to check what is going on there. So it reports that the CPU is currently set to the 200 MHz FSB, and memory as well, of course, and the total CPU core frequency is 1800 MHz.
There is an option to set the FSB clock to 400 Mhz. So I sure it will be usefull to do so, it will double the core clock, and I'm pretty sure it isn't an "overclock for such CPU to work in 3600 MHz frequency. But, if I If I change the FSB from 200 to 400 Mhz, "Spread Spectrum" option below this line became disabled.
Does anyone know what does the "Spread Spectrum" do, and is it worth to disable it and go to the 400 FSB and memory clock?
Comp specs:
-CPU: 3000 AMD K8 64BIT S939 512K
-Mother Board: GIGABYTE GA-K8NF-939 HyperTransport Technology \ AMD Atlon 64 FX \ PCI EXPRESS X16
2PCI EXPRESSx16 \ DUAL CHANNEL DDR \ USB 2.0 \ NVIDIA nForce4 4X \ 4xSerial ATA \ 3xPci
-Memory: MB DDR 400Mhz 512 2x256MB DDR 400MHZ
-Hard Drive: WESTERN DIGITAL \ HITACHI 80GB SERIAL ATA 8MB CACHE
-CD Drive: DVDRW TOSHIBA/SONY X16
-Video Card: PCI EXPRESS X16 GeForce PCX-6200 256MB TURBO CACHE DDR+ TV DVI OUT NVIDIA
-Sound Blaster: Realtek ALC850 Audio AC97 Codec Audio 8-channel
-2x IEEE 1394B FIREWIRE
-Ethernet 10/100Mb LAN CICADA8201 Gigabit LAN PHY chip
-Case: (USBx2 front) MIDI ATX P4 2-FAN 450W
Thanks
-AndreiD.