Overclocking Geil Value RAM

nheather · 15 Jul 2006 at 09:46

I'm hoping to get my Geil Value RAM (2 x 1GB) running at 225MHz with timings of 2.5-3-3-7 (1T).

I tried Prime overnight at stock voltage (2.6V, I assume) and it failed after 3 hours.

I assume that I just keep increasing the DDR volts and retrying - whats a safe maximum?

Cheers,

Nigel

Minstadave · 15 Jul 2006 at 10:31

nheather said:
I'm hoping to get my Geil Value RAM (2 x 1GB) running at 225MHz with timings of 2.5-3-3-7 (1T).

I tried Prime overnight at stock voltage (2.6V, I assume) and it failed after 3 hours.

I assume that I just keep increasing the DDR volts and retrying - whats a safe maximum?

Cheers,

Nigel

Give upto 2.8V without batting an eyelid.

What motherboard do you have?

Cyber-Mav · 15 Jul 2006 at 13:17

your using prime to test your memory overclocks? :confused:

nheather · 15 Jul 2006 at 16:44

your using prime to test your memory overclocks?

Okay, my ignorance - I thought that is what you should be using.

So please tell me what the correct tool is?

Cheers,

Nigel

ted34 · 15 Jul 2006 at 18:12

memtest for 24hrs. Use test 5 & 8 for overclocking and then all tests to check it at the end

Minstadave · 15 Jul 2006 at 20:03

ted34 said:
memtest for 24hrs. Use test 5 & 8 for overclocking and then all tests to check it at the end

Why bother with 24hr memtest :confused:

I use memtest for half an hour or so for memory overclocking. Then tweak the whole system too stability with long runs of prime. There's no point in running a 24hr memtest, because you're going to have to run prime aswell to test the overall stability.

Prime blend test will thrash the whole system, so if you're happy to use prime then its still a good memory test, if you get a good few hours in prime stable then you wouldn't need to bother with memtest.

nheather · 16 Jul 2006 at 08:04

Thanks for the info.

My memory has just passed MemTest32 for 9 hours running at 225MHz at 2.65V.

Looking good.

Cheers,

Nigel

Minstadave · 16 Jul 2006 at 11:03

nheather said:
Thanks for the info.

My memory has just passed MemTest32 for 9 hours running at 225MHz at 2.65V.

Looking good.

Cheers,

Nigel

Nice clocks, nice volts

Whats Memtest32 btw, there's memtest86+ which you have to put on a boot disk, or Memtest which runs in windows. :confused: