Regarding N64 Overclocking

Here's a list if you're interested:

Benefit from expansion pack:

Command & Conquer — The Expansion Pak is required for high-resolution map textures.
Gauntlet Legends — The Expansion Pak is required for 4 player multiplayer.
Hydro Thunder — The Expansion Pak is required for 3 and 4 player multiplayer
Perfect Dark — The Expansion Pak is required for the single player, co-operative and counter-operative campaigns, as well as multiplayer.
Re-Volt — Unlocks Medium Resolution mode (doubles resolution), cheat code ‘FLYBOY’ enables higher quality.
Road Rash 64 — The Expansion Pak increases the frame rate from 30FPS to 60FPS.
San Francisco Rush 2049 — The Expansion Pak is required for Track 6, the Advanced Circuit and music during Arcade races.
StarCraft 64 — The Expansion Pak is required for the Brood War missions.
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron — Increases the resolution to 640 x 480 pixels.
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil — The Expansion Pak is required for high-resolution map textures.

Quite a few games also give less fog or better textures with expansion pack:

Aidyn Chronicles: The First Mage
All-Star Baseball 2000
All-Star Baseball 2001
Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M.
Army Men: Air Combat
Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes
Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes 2
Battlezone: Rise of the Black Dogs
Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness
CyberTiger
Daikatana
Duke Nukem: Zero Hour
Excitebike 64
F-1 World Grand Prix II
Hybrid Heaven
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine
International Track and Field 2000
Jeremy McGrath’s Supercross 2000
Ken Griffey Jr.’s Slugfest
Madden NFL 2000
Madden NFL 2001
Madden NFL 2002
NFL Quarterback Club ’99
NFL Quarterback Club 2000
Nuclear Strike 64
Quake II
Rayman 2: The Great Escape
Resident Evil 2
Roadsters
Shadow Man
Spider-Man
South Park
Star Wars: Episode I: Battle for Naboo
Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer
The World Is Not Enough
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3
Top Gear Hyper-Bike
Top Gear Overdrive
Top Gear Rally 2
Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion
Turok: Rage Wars
Vigilante 8
Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense
Xena: Warrior Princess: The Talisman of Fate


...and of course these will not work without it:

Donkey Kong 64
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask

 

It's still shocking to me that Conker's wouldn't take advantage of the expansion pack. Was RARE just that good at optimizing N64 code that they didn't see a need for it? Also does anyone have a link to the 8mb Golden eye mod?

 

I was curious several years ago about adding more RDRAM to see if there would be performance changes. I played around with Goldeneye, which has that unique debug option “display speed” that shows the game’s framerate and system utilization % (RDP?, tex?, RSP) – it isn’t exactly 3DMark, but it does shed some light in performance. Neither of these stats changed when going from 4 to 8MB during gameplay – I don’t know if tampering with RDRAM's RASINTERVAL registers will do anything further. TV shot from the Jungle level with "display speed" activated (8MB RDRAM):





It would make sense that the most time critical data, such as video/framebuffer, are most likely stored in the RDRAM chip closest to the RCP. Additional RDRAM chips can be added, but they would be placed further and further away from the RCP – data propagation delay increases when communicating back and forth with the chips further out. Probably why devices with more than 2 "horizontal packaged" RDRAMs are very scarce, unless they have that Rambus RSocket (N64, Cirrus Logic) or multiple Rambus channels (Mpact! 2 AGP).

I might be wrong, but lengthwise the propagation delay from the RCP to expansion RDRAM is somewhere around 0.5 ns. Excluding the internal RDRAM operations and delay, it takes roughly 1 ns for back and forth RCP-expansion communication.

 

I would like to know if somes members here have been able to overclock their N64 to near perfection , without any BIG gameplay issues ?

I browse the web everywhere and the best "how to" explanation i have found is this one :
http://micro-64.com/features/oc64.shtml

Did anybody have found a nicer method that play stable ?
Please , it is really important to me
thanks

Edit , I have an 08-1 revision motherboard for this project , it it can help in anyway!
My MAIN Goal is to be able to play my favorite FPS game ever : N64 GOLDENEYE 007
I really want to play it a bit faster and more fluid than what the original non-modded console can offer....without too many gameplay issues !