Guide to Overclocking Athlon 64 Processors
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Overclocking Guide to Athlon 64 Processors by Neuromancer for Overclockers Pulse in 2007.

Before we get into how, I would like to address a misnomer about overclocking on an AMD platform. Now that socket A has gone away and we are all looking at tweaking our Athlon 64 754,939, AM2 or soon to be AM2+ processors, one thing need to be pointed out. The Front Side Bus is dead. The closest thing to a front side bus on and AMD system now is called the hyper-transport bus. Keep this as close to stock (1000MHz full duplex, so it is often referred to as 2,000MHz… but it is only 1G at time in any single direction) as possible, you can run it over stock a little however there is no noticeable gain in doing so. Memory and CPU talk to each other directly with no interface due to the on die memory controller, this is the largest use of bandwidth on any PC, and AMD completely removed any bandwidth problems by removing it from the “bus.” So your massive bandwidth Hyper transport Bus, is free to lollygag around all day talking to your video card and your hard drive and maybe a PCI device or two.
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