Is CL4 memory too fast for Q6600?

[Michaeljcox24]

Whats the best memory to buy, to overclock Q6600 to 3.2Ghz on an ASUS P5N32E Sli+ board? At the moment got Valueram at CL6, causing TDR's all the time in games but windows enviroment (just desktop) is completely stable at 1333FSB, 3GHZ.

Read on some other forums that low latency timings makes the system even more unstable. Is this correct?

 

[Michaeljcox24]

On the Asus website it says the maximum speed my board accepts is 800Mhz, embarrasingly, i knew nothing about cas latency until i started overclocking a Q6600 a couple of weeks back. Been doing a lot of reading, and there seems to be a lot of references to loosening up timings. Sorry, Im a noob when it comes to overclocking but the answers on here and general attitude of the lads is ten times better than any other forums ive posted on. Thanks.

 

[Michaeljcox24]

current ram is 2 sticks of 800mhz DDR2 kingston valueram, 4gb timings are 6 6 6 18, and voltage according to hardware monitor when bios is on auto setting is 2.14v. i have overclocked up to 3ghz into stable windows enviroment, but get tdrs in assassins creed 2. tried uping fsb to 1467, but maching wouldnt boot. decreased timings to 7 7 7 21 and it booted but was really slow and cpu at idle was too hot.

im pretty sure tdr's were due to memory timings being too slow because when i decreased core clock on the gpu, tdr's went away. i only live in west brom so sat gonna drive up the M6 and pick up some cl4 memory from overclockers warehouse.

 

[Michaeljcox24]

Ive got it to boot and runs quite nicely at 3ghz, and that was at stock voltage. wont know if the memory is the actually less of a problem though till i get something better than what is in the machine now. if it still tdr's, ill be replacing the board too as think one of the dimm slots is bent