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Overclocking the NVIDIA
nForce 590 SLI Technology Chipset
This section describes how to maximize the performance of an NVIDIA nForce
590 SLI PC system. It provides a systematic approach to unleashing its immense
performance potential. Bus speeds, bandwidth and processor core speeds — both
CPU and GPU core speeds — are the main contributing factors to boosting overall
system performance.
This section describes how to adjust settings for the major chip interconnects and
components that affect performance. Figure 1 shows a high-level diagram of
components in a PC system:
AMD Athlon CPU core frequency
DDR2 memory interface bandwidth and latency
CPU-NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI SPP HyperTransport bus
NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI SPP-NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP
HyperTransport bus
NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI SPP/MCP PCI Express bus
GPU core and memory frequency
