HT Width causing issues?

The_Other_One

The_Other_One

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So I was playing on my desktop and it locked up again. I got rather furious and begin ripping it apart, trying to remove anything that might cause a problem. I even took off the HS and reapplied some thermal paste to be sure there was enough and it was freash...

Once nothing else seemed to work, I entered the bios and started looking around. I saw HT Width and figured why not, so I changed from 16(up)/16(down) to 8(up)/8(down) So far nothing's happened, but I've gone weeks without a problem before!

This, however, is weird. FEAR runs many times better. I don't mean just a 1-2FPS faster, I mean like absolutly no lag. The load times for Fear are much faster too, maybe even half! NFS Most Wanted seems the same, perhaps slower, but nothing really noticeable.

I read around where other people had similar problems with this HT Width, but how it SHOULD work on 16 both ways. A bit slower but solid stability is fine with me, but I just don't quite understand it...
 
Voltage LDT = voltage going to your hypertransport ... im guessing it might be not getting enough voltage?
 
Hmm... I'm not seeing it in my voltage list...

How much performace am I loosing when set like this? I mean the processor runs MUCH cooler.
 
Hehe odds are you wont notice lol. Hell i didnt notice much when dicking around 200-->1000 hehe
 
yea i think i read an article on hypertransport once testing the different frequencies... that 400-600-800-1000mhz it didnt matter that much because other factors bottlenecked it...
however, 8-bit and 16-bit i wouldnt mess with... if i were you i would turn that back to 16bit and turn its multiplier down... that should lower heat more.
assuming thats in your a64 4000 system u should turn it down from 5x to 4x making it more like a 754 socket bus at 800mhz rather than 1ghz fsb.
either way hypertransport runs in two different channels (16bit+16bit) and effectively should run at 2ghz, now yours will run at 1.6ghz.
it shouldnt effect performance that much though... in fact if it was overheating itll put performance up.
personally my hypertransport is at 1.2ghz 2.4ghz effectively along with my cpu clock... just for bragging rights... my mobo handles it well though.
 
You know I've never seen CPU-z rate HT higher than 200... Oh well, it's plenty fast for now.
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Thats because thats the pre-multiplied value. You set the pre-multiplied (aka core clock) and you set the LDT/HTT ratio (usually a multiplier 1.0x to 5.0x)

yea i think i read an article on hypertransport once testing the different frequencies... that 400-600-800-1000mhz it didnt matter that much because other factors bottlenecked it...
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Maybe but i also didnt test it for very long so i dunno myself
 
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