<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ed3fd123-ddc0-4a1f-b2e8-bf1810131612/8923C217-1E78-4DB3-84E6-47D168392481/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.driverheaven.net/hardware-discussion-support/155949-g-skill-4gb-2-x-2gb-ddr2-1066-pc2-8500-a.html#post1131830" href="http://www.driverheaven.net/hardware-discussion-support/155949-g-skill-4gb-2-x-2gb-ddr2-1066-pc2-8500-a.html#post1131830" style="font-size: 11px;">www.driverheaven.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.driverheaven.net/hardware-discussion-support/155949-g-skill-4gb-2-x-2gb-ddr2-1066-pc2-8500-a.html#post1131830"><DIV id="post_message_1131830"><DIV> <DIV class="smallfont">Quote:</DIV> <TABLE width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD class="alt2"><DIV> Originally Posted by <STRONG>[hobo]eclipse</STRONG> <A rel="nofollow" href="http://www.driverheaven.net/hardware-discussion-support/155949-g-skill-4gb-2-x-2gb-ddr2-1066-pc2-8500-a.html#post1131821"><IMG border="0" alt="View Post" src="http://www.driverheaven.net/styles/midnight/buttons/viewpost.gif" class="inlineimg" title="View Post" /></A> </DIV> <DIV> just after your "should be able to manage 500 FSB" statement i realize i have no idea what the default is,</DIV> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV><DIV>E8400 has a default CPU multi of 9x, CPU FSB of 333 MHz, and clock speed of 3.0 GHz (333x9)</DIV> if you run the CPU at its default FSB, which is at 333 MHz, and then if you want to run your system memory at DDR2-1066 MHz,<BR /><DIV> you will have to set system BIOS's memory settings to use memory multi of 3.2x (3.2x CPU FSB 333 = 1066)</DIV> <BR /><DIV> if you want to overclock the E8400 to 4.0 GHz, then you will need to increase the CPU FSB, from the default 333 to 444 or 500 MHz...</DIV> 9x 444 = 4.0 GHz of CPU speed,<BR /><DIV> then you will need to use memory multi of 2.4x... 2.4x 444 = 1066... the system memory will then be running at DDR2-1066 MHz.</DIV> or 8x 500 = 4.0 GHz of CPU speed, then you will need to use memory multi of 2.0x... 2x 500 = 1000... the system memory will then be running at DDR2-1000 MHz.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8923C217-1E78-4DB3-84E6-47D168392481/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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