Time to find out how to...

[dreamnite]

Overclock my Memory!!

Once again all looking for some help! Many of you helped me get my 2500 to 3200, after alot of post and explaining. hehe. Now I have got it to 2.4gig and stable. But none of this did I have to change the settings at all.

Now I read that ram is important, very in fact. So taking this in i got some

http://www.corsairmicro.com/corsair/...-3200llpro.pdf

Reading some of the other posts in this forum i have seen many different people doing different settings. However, as soon as I change my settings away from default, windows will not boot.

I have tried, 5-2-2-2 , 6-2-2-2 and 11-2-2-2.5

Also I have used the "aggressive" and "Turbo"modes on the Mobo, both of which set the memory to 5-2-2-2.

I have uped the voltage to 2.80 volts - this is the top setting my BIOS will let me to go to. Normally it runs on Auto at 2.70 Volts.


Anyone got any ideas what may be causing me to crash out when memory is changed, Maybe it is something else that is effected when I change the memory settings, I am unsure.

Any help would be most greatfully received.

Thanks

Dreamnite

PS. Hope we are all not too hung over from New Year

[John Prophet]

to "overclock" it is different than adjusting those aggressive memory settings....oc'ing is the speed of the ram.


I think what you do is set the memory timings themslves temporarily on very conservative settings...then you try to up the "speed"..or the "fsb" lol, of the ram.

Say if its running at 133x2=266 (pc2100) right now..you would try to set it at 166x2=333 (pc2700)

or if its already on 166 try going for 200x2=400 (pc3200)

(I may be wrong on some of the pc3200 etc speeds)

But you get the picture...that is overclocking.....after you get to that higher clock speed...THEN you start trying to see how aggressive you can get with the memory timings etc....at least thats how I think the oc peeps go about it.

And of course lots of it depends on your motherboard and what features it has as far as fsb "dividers" and other things like that

JP