Overclocking the Chipset

[MarcelKapono]

I saw this somewhere but its difficult to find anything really informative on OCing the chipset (and yes, I mean the southbridge). How do you overclock a chipset? What is the use of it?

[Samppa221]

Why would you want to overclock your chipset? Do you mean overclocking your cpu?

[MarcelKapono]

5 minutes ago, Samppa221 said:

Why would you want to overclock your chipset? Do you mean overclocking your cpu?

This is my question. And no, I do not mean overclocking the CPU. 

Here is what wikipedia says, but doesn't offer much help:

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Technically any component that uses a timer (or clock) to synchronize its internal operations can be overclocked. Most efforts for computer components however focus on specific components such as processors (a.k.a. CPU), video cards, motherboard chipsets, and RAM. 

 

[Amazingasian]

10 minutes ago, MarcelKapono said:

I saw this somewhere but its difficult to find anything really informative on this. How do you overclock a chipset? What is the use of it?

Do you mean overclocking ON a chipset?  That would mean overclocking the CPU.

[MarcelKapono]

1 minute ago, Amazingasian said:

Do you mean overclocking ON a chipset?  That would mean overclocking the CPU.

I don't mean overclocking on a chipset; the wikipedia article seems to imply that you can overclock the actual southbridge on the chipset itself. Is this even possible?

[Amazingasian]

1 minute ago, MarcelKapono said:

I don't mean overclocking on a chipset; the wikipedia article seems to imply that you can overclock the actual southbridge on the chipset itself. Is this even possible?

I don't think that's possible...  

[Minsekt]

1 minute ago, MarcelKapono said:

I don't mean overclocking on a chipset; the wikipedia article seems to imply that you can overclock the actual southbridge on the chipset itself. Is this even possible?

 

Just now, Amazingasian said:

I don't think that's possible...  

 

northbridge/southbridge, overlocking your BCLK is basically overclocking the chipset.

[MarcelKapono]

1 minute ago, Minsekt said:

 

northbridge/southbridge, overlocking your BCLK is basically overclocking the chipset.

So I guess my question now is what do people mean when they change the southbridge voltage vs. the northbridge voltage?

[Amazingasian]

Just now, MarcelKapono said:

So I guess my question now is what do people mean when they change the southbridge voltage vs. the northbridge voltage?

It can be done but it yeilds no performance increase.

[Minsekt]

3 minutes ago, MarcelKapono said:

So I guess my question now is what do people mean when they change the southbridge voltage vs. the northbridge voltage?

 

2 minutes ago, Amazingasian said:

It can be done but it yeilds no performance increase.

 

yeah its pretty much pointless nowadays. its causing actually instabiliy (in therory at least)

but for increasing the BCLK, that can improve stability of your IMC for example.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, MarcelKapono said:

So I guess my question now is what do people mean when they change the southbridge voltage vs. the northbridge voltage?

This is done to increase stability on AMD boards. The OC may need more northbridge voltage to run at it's higher CPU overclock.