HOw to up the FSB

**Slayertime** · January 19th, 2004, 10:01 PM

I have been seeing people up their FSB in ones..example, 201,202,203 Like that i thought you could only up it but 100/133/166/200MHZ. How do i do this?

**EvilRick** · January 19th, 2004, 10:03 PM

Your mobo needs to support the FSB being upped in increments of "1".

**Slayertime** · January 19th, 2004, 10:12 PM

These are my specs

AMD Athlon 3200+@2.2ghz
A7N8X
120GB 7200RPM
Ati Radeon 9800 XT 256mb @364/418
512MB PC3200 DDR
Audigy 5.1
Windows XP Home Edition

**EvilRick** · January 19th, 2004, 10:24 PM

The manual for you board says you can change the 'CPU External Frequency (MHz) [100MHz]' which should be found under the 'Advanced Chipset Features' in your BIOS.

**Dax_Brandy** · January 19th, 2004, 10:37 PM

depends on the mobo. but i think it's the chipset that dictates those options.. via chipset has the feature of changing fsb by increments of one, it also has the feature that it calls the pci divider. once you reach 166Mhz, it reverts the pci/agp clock to 33/66 MHz.. kinda cool.. and then theres the nforce chipsets by nvidia with the PCI/AGP clock freq. locking feature..

**unknown9** · January 19th, 2004, 10:53 PM

When you go about overclocking, should you start with the FSB or Multiplier first?

BTW, Slayertime, you have to adjust it to "User Defined" so you can raise it by increments of 1 instead of 100/133/etc

**EvilRick** · January 19th, 2004, 11:05 PM

Since most CPU's are "locked", you can't adjust the Multiplier, even if you try. You may be able to change it in the BIOS, but it will still just be whatever the CPU is locked at.