First OC, please have a look!

chrislocalboy

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You may of seen my post in the last few days asking for advice on my first OC attempt, I have taken some screenies from CPU-Z and was wondering if people can have a look at them and see if they think there is anything that should be changed or tweaked, please note I have not touched my RAM timing settings as I do not have a clue so any advice in that area would be greatly appreciated.

AMD 64 Venice 3000+ (clocked to 3800+)
Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-SLI
2Gb Corsair DDR PC3200 RAM
Sapphire ATI X800XT

Especially requesting a look in from Cavemanoc as you helped me out and were very understanding of my noobiness and the terminology problems I was having with my boards BIOS

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Cheers
 
Ok as suggested, I have now put the latency to 2.5, ran 1 full test on memtest86 and it passed without error. Is there anything else you would change?

Defcon/Dutchguy - I have now lowered my voltage and CPU-Z shows it as 1.392v, to test stability I have mainly been using prime95 and memtest86, have yet to set it off on a full 24hr prime95 cycle as I have not yet had the chance to do so but have had it running for around 8hrs without error.

No I have not hit any limits yet but am comfortable with the OC, I know when to not try and push my luck ;) although may try to get it to 4000+ level at some point.

Thanks for the advice.... keep it coming :)
 
Hello CSMonkey, to answer your question I'm still using the AMD stock cooler, although I have 2 x 80mm and 1 x 120mm Amberlight casefans circulating the air..... although I am thinking of upgrading to a Zalman cooler just to be on the safe side.

My divider at the mo is currently set to 166, I'm a bit unsure of messing with my timings as like I mentioned I dont have the foggiest clue what I'm doing so unless someone would be kind enough to go into exact detail on what I need to change I'm ver hesitant about doing it as I feel content at the mo!!!

Like I said if anyone wants to be kind enough to be exact about the timing settings then feel free as I will be willing to give it a try :)

Thanks
 
When you say try and keep the timings below 2.5-3-3-6 I take it your referring to the SPD settings you see in CPU-Z, these being;

CAS Latency = 2.5,
RAS# to CAS# = 3,
RAS# Precharge = 3,
TRas# = 6

Excuse me for asking but I just want to be sure, so a good lot of settings would be 2.5-2.5-2.5-5.5 for instance? anything under the numbers you stated?

Cheers
 
Thanks for the replies guys, I'm using a divider of 166 at the moment, would you recommed turning it down to 133 before I try these settings? from what I gather memory can be a dodgy area as if it fails it can cause corruption on your HDD, just want to be sure before I start changing :rolleyes:

Thanks
 
Check the link, I have 2 of these modules installed, no specifics about the memory really and there is very little on the Corsair website.

So as mentioned by Dutch Guy I'm aiming for 2.5-2-2-7-1T, would this give me must have a performance boost as I'm very wary of changing these settings and if there is not going to be much difference I think I could be better just leaving them as they are, I have already set the latency to 2.5 and that seems to be stable..... is it worth going further? is there much risk involved?

Cheers
 
Ok I will give that a try tomorrow, can I just confirm;

This is what I should be changing?

Latency - 2
RAS# to CAS# - 3
RAS# Precharge - 3
Tras# - 6

Excuse my noobiness but as mentioned many times this is my first time and want to be sure before I attempt it.

Cheers
 
RAS# to CAS# - 3
RAS# Precharge - 3

These are already set to 3 so all I'm lowering is my latency and Tras#

Should I do the latency first, test and then lower the Tras#?

If so how long would you recommend running memtest for?

Cheers
 
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