Ocing XP mobile from 266 to 400 fsb

[compychump]

Hi,

If I get one of these 2500+ XP mobile CPU's that everyone's talking about, how hard is it to overclock? I hear it's pretty easy. I am okay with it running at stock ghz, but what about the 266 fsb? Is it going to be drastically slower than 400fsb? How much does the FSB affect things? If I Oc'ed to a 3200+, what would the fsb be then? Most of all, what the hell is an FSB all about?

 

[zero4zero]

It's easy as long as you have the memory to match the bus frequency. In other words, that you have PC3200 installed which have a frequency of 400Mhz. If you have PC2100 which have a frequency of 266 Mhz, ramping up your bus to 400 Mhz won't give you much cause your memory will be greating a bottleneck and your bus speed will not go higher than the memory speed which would be 266 Mhz with PC2100 RAM.

 

[pcgodintraining]

I'm getting two sticks of PC3200 400mhz ddr and using it in dual channel. What's the difference between a double-sided memory module and a single-sided memory module? It's that the double-sided is DDR and the single sided is just SDRAM?