Can get past 3.7ghz Need help/tips lol.

Ok... Ive been working though a overclocking tutorial. And have a few questions...

First, the tutorial Im using says to find the "max fsb" for the motherboard first, so I follow the instructions and set my cpu multiplier to x8 so that it wont be the CPU thats unstable and set my ram really slow and really loose timings so it wont be that..... The tutorial also reckonmends to set my CPU:RAM ratio loose... But for the life of me I cant find anywhere in BIOS to set CPU:RAM ratio??? Could someone point me in the right direction??? Cause later on in the tutorial I have to set the ratio at 1:1

Secondly in order to find the "max fsb" for my motherboard the tutorial says to set the vdd (which it says is the voltage for the motherboard) to 1.6/1.7 ish.... Now there are many voltage setting but none which are called just "vdd" so which one on this board is the same as "vdd"???? Is it the CPU/NB Voltage? The NB Voltage?? And whats a safe max to set this???

Thirdly I read some where that you want to keep the HT Link Speed at 2000mhz or else it can get unstable.... But for some bizarre reason in my manual it says "CPU/NB Frequency (CPU/NB frequency multipler) options x4, x5, ....x20" but for some reason when I go into BIOS the options are like 800mhz, 900mhz .... 3600mhz etc???? So why and how do I change my multiplier cause at 260FSB my HT Link Speed is 2600mhz?? When I want it at 2000mhz??? In AMD Overdrive it says this multiplier is at x10 but I dont know how to change it in BIOS?

Also what is the NB 1.8v Voltage do?
 
Stildawn said:
First, the tutorial Im using says to find the "max fsb" for the motherboard first, so I follow the instructions and set my cpu multiplier to x8 so that it wont be the CPU thats unstable and set my ram really slow and really loose timings so it wont be that..... The tutorial also reckonmends to set my CPU:RAM ratio loose... But for the life of me I cant find anywhere in BIOS to set CPU:RAM ratio??? Could someone point me in the right direction??? Cause later on in the tutorial I have to set the ratio at 1:1
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All that is talking about is using your Bus and multi together to overclock, instead of one or the other. You might not have a straight out CPU:RAM ratio setting in the bios. All it means is the speed of your Memory compared to the speed of your Bus.

Stildawn said:
Secondly in order to find the "max fsb" for my motherboard the tutorial says to set the vdd (which it says is the voltage for the motherboard) to 1.6/1.7 ish.... Now there are many voltage setting but none which are called just "vdd" so which one on this board is the same as "vdd"???? Is it the CPU/NB Voltage? The NB Voltage?? And whats a safe max to set this???
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If your raising your Bus speed after a point you would want to bump up your NB voltage, not the CPU/NB thats the memory controller. You would only raise your CPU/NB if you were really overclocking your memory.

Stildawn said:
but for some reason when I go into BIOS the options are like 800mhz, 900mhz .... 3600mhz etc???? So why and how do I change my multiplier cause at 260FSB my HT Link Speed is 2600mhz?? When I want it at 2000mhz??? In AMD Overdrive it says this multiplier is at x10 but I dont know how to change it in BIOS?

Also what is the NB 1.8v Voltage do?
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The 800/900 and so on is the HT multi from a base of 200mhz in MHZ. You have a 200mhz. base HT bus speed. X2 would be 400, X3 would be 600, X3.5 would be 700mhz. So say you had your Bus overclocked at 220mhz. with your HT set at 1600 which is X8, your HT would be running at 1760mhz.

CPU/NB is the memory controller on the processor
NB is the Northbridge on the motherboard.
 
Ok cheers dude, that helps heaps....

Would you happen to know the max safe NB voltage?? So I can set it to that?

Yeah I think I figured out the CPU:RAM thing... Cause theres an option to change the ram speed and I noticed that when I did that, the CPU:RAM ratio in CPUz changed... Just got to get it as close to 1:1 as possible.
 
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