I noticed in the bios setting it lets you adjust cpu setting from 200mhz all the way to 300mhz. Cpu Mulitplier is locked at 10. For ram you cans et the speed to 200mhz on manual all the way up to 250mhz. my question isd if i start fooling around with the cpu speed right now 200X10=2000 to 250x10=2500 will it raise my ram settings from 200mhz. I only have pc 3200 ddr running at 200mhzx2, can I still adjust the cpu speed or will it affect the ram. So basically can i take my system from 2.0 ghz to 2.5 ghz with out affecting the ram speed because i only have ddr 400mhz ram or do i need to goto 250mhz ddr, does cpu and memory work synchronous or asynchronous. I know the bus is hypertransport because of on die memory controller and isn't like old althon xp's on socket a. Thanks guys!!!

well i have that exact motherboard and cpu - well its in a box unused ATM

i managed to get to 2.4 ghz stable though I'm a bit of a chicken so I ended up clocking it back to stock

what I had to do so the ram wasn't overclocked was change the ram to 166mhz otherwise it got clocked up to 240mhz (or something like that) the exact details are a bit fuzzy

but in answer to your question - yes if all you did was up the CPU frequency it also up the memory freq

so crank up the CPU and turn the memory freq down

I had to otherwise my overclock was completely unstable causing me to have to reset the BIOS with the jumper

You can keep the RAM running at 200mhz and let the FSB:RAM ratio be chosen according to the SPD. So for example if you do bump your FSB to 240mhz, then ratio by SPD would probably be 5:6.