can you lower multiplier on 2500's

[sweeper2]

if i lowered my multiplier down from 11 to lets say 10 or 9 or something, and upped the fsb so my mem would work at higher rates but i could keep my cpu lower, is that possible before i attempt to do this...

[John Prophet]

If you can get it unlocked I am sure its possible......but why would you want to? Cant the cpu clock as high as the memory or do you have some killer memory?

Most boards have some independence between the ram speed and cpu speed...or at least different dividers etc.

[sweeper2]

http://www.techimo.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=101048


it refers to this link...I am trying to keep my cpu at 2.200GHz as not to over heat it to much as the athlons run high temps anyways, I want to keep the cpu speed the same but up my mem as to see if i can get it to where it ran on a pentium system as related to above link.

[John Prophet]

well if you have it at 200X11 then youd have to go 220x10 to get the same 2.2ghz out of it.

Unless they have half multipliers? I have no clue, lol.

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Hmm, I havent really studied memory benchmarks much...is there supposed to be that much difference just between brands??

Do you have any option in the bios to speed up the ram while leaving the cpu alone?

What about the other memory settings...all the cas timings and stuff..have you played with those??

[sweeper2]

played with all the cas timings...so far can only get 2.5 3 3 8
anything else it locks up either up or down on the timings.
have multiplier at 10.5 X 210 but only can bring up mem to a benchmark of 3100 on my K7N2 delta L nforce 2 400 MB compared to sweepers intel board which he had same mem up to 4000 on same benchmark. just odd that with a good set of ram sticks compared to a generic set of mismatched sticks i get same benchmarks...go figure...wouldn't have spent the money for the ram if i knew it wouldn't do anything for me..

[Sweeper]

Just because the benchmark stays the same doesn't mean the memory ISN'T doing anything for your system. You went from 512MB to 1GB and a MUCH more stable set of sticks. IMO you should take a look at what you invested in. Your system should be much more stable than trying to overclock with mis-matched (generic) sticks. You now have 2 matched sticks of OCZ DDR333 Rev. 3.2 512MB memory. Run some games, applications etc. and see. Also, let me say you got a heck of a deal considering those sticks run $94.00 each at NewEgg.

Regards,
Sweeper

[John Prophet]

Tell him big bro!

The Intel system will have a significant bandwidth lead compared to a nForce-2 Athlon system, especially if his motherboard has the Intel i865/875 chipset.

Robert Richmond

[sweeper2]

Originally posted by Sweeper
Just because the benchmark stays the same doesn't mean the memory ISN'T doing anything for your system. You went from 512MB to 1GB and a MUCH more stable set of sticks. IMO you should take a look at what you invested in. Your system should be much more stable than trying to overclock with mis-matched (generic) sticks. You now have 2 matched sticks of OCZ DDR333 Rev. 3.2 512MB memory. Run some games, applications etc. and see. Also, let me say you got a heck of a deal considering those sticks run $94.00 each at NewEgg.

Regards,
Sweeper

man, this is the 2nd thread you've snuck into....
i do appreciate the deal you gave me on the sticks of ram, but, on the other hand i really havn't noticed a big difference considering how much i still did pay for these sticks of ram
but on the other hand I still wanted them due to the fact they are matched and better then my (generic) sticks and i havn't run any big programs yet (games etc.).
I did put the multiplier back to 11 X 200 FSB with mem 1:1 with FSB. I was able to lower my multiplier (which is cool, didn't think you could) to 10.5 and upped the FSB, got cpu to stay at 2200 GHz but mem only went up slightly, so wasn't worth all the trouble.
Anywoo...he is only older by 5 minutes......(ahhh Sweeper2 gives away a secret) can YOU figure it out????

Either your mother has the fastest gestation period on record, or else you two are twins.

Anyway, load 20-30 active programs. You will quickly notice the difference 1GB of memory makes as compared to 512MB. I have 1GB in my primary workstation, and I still need more memory!