Help an OC noob

[Sobtanian]

Hello all

I've ventured into OC territory for the first time now. Never been that into it in the past, but the current hardware made it too tempting.

Here's the relevant specs

Mobo - Asus Rampage II Extreme
RAM - 6x2gb Corsair Dominator (this has an XMP profile of 7-7-7-20 at 1600mhz)
CPU - intel i7 920

SO - being the noob that I am, I'm trying to get the CPU @ 3.2mhz and the RAM at 1600mhz.

Using the ram's XMP profile, the RAM becomes 1600mhz but it automatically sets the cpu to it's default 2.67mhz
Using the mobo's CPU OC profile to 3.2mhz, the cpu overclock's fine but the RAM has an odd 1283.4mhz timing.

If I try to do stuff manually, I get overwhelmed by a thousand and one variables and things to tweak

SO - I guess the questions are:

1 - Can I overclock the CPU to 3.2mhz AND the ram to 1600mhz (ideally 7-7-7-20)? and how?

2 - if not, what's best to have, the faster CPU or the faster RAM profile?

And thanks!

 

[Sobtanian]

CPU is ghz I meant, sorry!

 

[Sobtanian]

Thank you both.

I have managed the following:

Bus 160mhz
multiplier 20

Ram 1600mhz with a 10x multiplier

system seems stable.

temps wise, the NB is at 52 degrees and SB at 50 degrees... am a bit worried that's too much?

also, with regards to RAM voltages, the RAM is specced at 1.65volt @ 1600, is that the DRAM core voltage or bus voltage?

thanks!