firemandave
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Meithan said:Memory is one of many factors that can limit overclocking potential. It doesn't always restrict it. The thing with DDR is that it has low clock frequencies, and that's why it can represent the first limitation.
It's quite the same thing with Intel, except Intel doesn't use HyperTransport, just a good ol' quad-pumped front side bus (FSB). Quad-pumped just means the advertised FSB frequency is four times the real FSB speed (for instance, 800Mhz FSB is 4x200Mhz). What's important is the real speed of the bus (200Mhz being a sound value for the CPUs in that range), so it doesn't matter if it's a dual-data rate, multiplied AMD HyperTransport bus or a quad-pumped Intel front side bus.
Just as an example, tell me your exact CPU speed (stock and OCed), memory speed and FSB, so we can figure it all out.
CPU stock is 2.4GHz, and I'm running DDR PC3200. OC'd speed on my proc is 3.2GHz.