I have an older system with an ASUS A7v8X motherboard and an Athlon 2400+. I have been reading a lot about overclocking, and am quite interested in the concept of matching (if possible) the throughput and CPU bandwidth.

I am using 2 GB of PC 3200 memory as it is the most recent type I can use with this mobo. I have found that my performance is best with a CPU multipliler of 12.5 and a bus speed of 166. I am not sure if this is a good combination or not...

In terms of stability it is o.k. I play BF2 a lot and have some hang ups and freezes but no major problems (yet:))

Any input is greatly appreciated.

What graphics card are you using?

VIA based boards aren't the greatest for overclocking because most of them lack the option to lock the PCI/AGP at their defaults.

I'm surprised the multi isn't locked on your CPU but since it isn't, keep the FSB at 166MHz & set the RAM speed to DDR333...that will put the CPU:DRAM ratio at 1:1. Then if you can raise the multi higher than 12.5x, try it at 13.0x & bump the vcore up to 1.70v. That will put your CPU speed at 2167MHz, which is a mild 8% increase over the default 2000MHz. The real performance gain is from the increase in the FSB from 133MHz to 166MHz.

Sorry I forgot that...I have a GeForce 7600GS, AGP 8X, 512MB video card.

Thanks for taking the time to give me input!

Thanks Jam! I tried this and it works very well. I find that when I use the stock setting (15.0 x 133), my game performance is mediocre. I see a big bost in playability with these new settings.