Overclocking on the Athlon 64 is more complicated than on other architectures because of the backplane design and the often misunderstood relationship between the LDT and HyperTransport bus. When overclocking, oft-repeated is that "turning down your HT link speed has little effect on performance", or that "running with a memory divider is for weenies". As was the question with our Multimeter vs. Motherboard article, I had to ask myself "Has any of this ever been quantified and published?"