Is FSB harder to achieve than raw clock speed?

[ricercar]

I'm confused by my 1700+ XP Thoroughbred behavior. Shouldn't a CPU be able to hit 2000 MHz (10x at 200 MHz FSB) if that same CPU hits 2075 MHz with another FSB/multipler combination?

- The CPU can hit 2075 MHz with 166 MHz FSB (12.5x)
- The CPU hits only 1700 MHz at 200 MHz FSB (8.5x). 9.0 won't POST.

Is FSB harder to achieve than raw clock speed?

Configuration:
- AMD Athlon Thoroughbread XP 1700+ JIUHB
- ASUS A7N8X Deluxe v2.0/BIOS 1005
- Mushkin DDR PC3500 2.5-3-3-6 Level II Black

[Smokey]

Its a combo of both highest fsb and highest mutli, stable that will give best results. Remember the cpu clock is fsb*multi, and I think both have seperate limits on the cpu, this is my understanding anyways, maybe Im wrong :p

Your cpu has a fsb of 133, so it already is OC a good deal, as much as a Barton2500+ @ 200fsb more or less.

Im guessing pci and agp buses are locked, and you have raised the volts on the ram a good deal? Maybe run memtest86 also make sure your ram is 100%

[The Baron]

You monkey with RAM voltage?

[Mike89]

Depends what your memory speed is at. If you have it sync (memory also running at 200) then your memory may be holding you back. Try lowering the timings.