133 MHz FSB: Perfect For Overclocking

12:26 - Wednesday 10 May 2006 by Bert Töpelt
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: dual, 41, ghz, cores, uk

Table of content:
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  1. 1 – A Budget CPU At Top Speeds
  2. 2 – A Budget CPU At Top Speeds, Continued
  3. 3 – Inside the Pentium D 805
  4. 4 – The Secret Of The Multiplier
  5. 5 – 133 MHz FSB: Perfect For Overclocking
  6. 6 – How Is Breaking The 4 GHz Barrier Possible?
  7. 7 – How Is Breaking The 4 GHz Barrier Possible? Continued
  8. 8 – How Is Breaking The 4 GHz Barrier Possible? Continued
  9. 9 – Three Theories Where The Customer Comes Out Ahead
  10. 10 – Which Memory Clock Speed Is Most Suitable?
  11. 11 – The Right Chipset
  12. 12 – Keeping Cool When Power Consumed Tops 150 Watts at 4.1 GHz
  13. 13 – Keeping Cool When Power Consumed Tops 150 Watts at 4.1 GHz, Continued
  14. 14 – Power Consumption Levels Top 200 W
  15. 15 – Power Consumption Levels Top 200 W, Continued
  16. 16 – Energy Saving Functions Lack C1E
  17. 17 – Risk-free Overclocking, Including Heat Protection
  18. 18 – Ready For The 64 Bit Future
  19. 19 – Tom's Hardware Guides Overclocking Diary
  20. 20 – 3.33 GHz Remains Stable At Standard Voltage Levels
  21. 21 – 3.33 GHz Remains Stable At Standard Voltage Levels, Continued
  22. 22 – Trouble Free Operation At 3.60 GHz
  23. 23 – At 3.8 GHz Some Minor Voltage Increases Become Necessary
  24. 24 – Water Cooling Is Recommended For 4.0 GHz
  25. 25 – Water Cooling Is Recommended For 4.0 GHz, Continued
  26. 26 – Overclocking To 4.10 GHz Boosts Basic Clock Speed By 54 Percent
  27. 27 – Overclocking To 4.10 GHz Boosts Basic Clock Speed By 54 Percent, Continued
  28. 28 – Will The System Boot At 4.3 GHz?
  29. 29 – Benchmark Results Show Performance Increases Of Up To 54 Percent
  30. 30 – 3D, Continued
  31. 31 – 3D, Continued
  32. 32 – Video Editing / Video Encoding
  33. 33 – Video, Continued
  34. 34 – Video, Continued
  35. 35 – Audio Encoding
  36. 36 – Office Applications
  37. 37 – Office Applications, Continued
  38. 38 – Parallel Applications - Multitasking
  39. 39 – Synthetic Benchmarks
  40. 40 – Synthetic Benchmarks, Continued
  41. 41 – Synthetic Benchmarks, Continued
  42. 42 – Synthetic Benchmarks, Continued
  43. 43 – Summary Overview: Who's The Winner?
  44. 44 – Conclusion: The 4.1 GHz Dual Core Delivers Peak Performance For Pocket C...
  45. 45 – Conclusion, Continued

133 MHz FSB: Perfect For Overclocking

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Our overclocking project with the Pentium D 805 starts with a front side bus speed of 133 MHz (533 QDR).

FSB clock speed settings may be applied through the BIOS software. Here's an example from an Asus motherboard.

Using programs from the motherboard vendor, or other tools, you can even change the FSB clock rate while Windows is running. Here's an example of Gigabyte's EasyTune 5 program at work on this task.

The following table provides an overview of some of the mathematically possible CPU clock rates that result from raising the FSB clock rate.

Pentium D 805 with 20x Multiplier
FSB clock CPU clock
133 MHz (Default rate) 2.66 GHz
140 MHz 2.80 GHz
150 MHz 3.00 GHz
160 MHz 3.20 GHz
166 MHz 3.33 GHz
170 MHz 3.40 GHz
180 MHz 3.60 GHz
190 MHz 3.80 GHz
200 MHz 4.00 GHz
205 MHz 4.10 GHz
210 MHz (THG clock) 4.20 GHz
215 MHz (Maximum boot clock) 4.30 GHz

At first blush, overclocking such a small and cheap CPU to 4.1 GHz seems impossible. Nevertheless, the numbers don't lie, and if you consider the ancestry of this CPU more carefully, this kind of overclocking becomes easier to understand.


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