overclocking ram

krisbutler · 11 Apr 2008 at 19:03

my friends bring me his pc 2 overclock 2 moz hoping to get 4ghz from a e8400 "easy u say" now he has the corsair xms2 pc2-6400 4-4-4-12 stuff

my question is will this overclock from 800 mhz to 890mhz?

if so how shall i go about this?

dazz25 · 11 Apr 2008 at 19:48

I've got the PC2-6400C5 version of this RAM and it won't budge a single bit! Might just be my sticks though. Hopefully your friends will be different

krisbutler · 11 Apr 2008 at 20:02

have u tried loosening timings?

gt_junkie · 11 Apr 2008 at 20:08

It's what i'd do kris.

Try 5-5-5-15 as per the normal PC8000 stuff and see how far you get.

I'd be surprised if you couldn't get a little over stock.

gt

krisbutler · 11 Apr 2008 at 22:18

can u unlink ram? if so how

steve258 · 11 Apr 2008 at 22:39

It's only possible on nvidia chipset. On Intel chipset the best you get is FSB: DRAM ratio.

krisbutler · 12 Apr 2008 at 20:01

overclocked this corsair to 891mhz but have timigs of 6-6-6-18 at the moment just need 2 play whats the max volts ?

gt_junkie · 13 Apr 2008 at 12:37

As it's C4 i'll assume it's the 2gb kit so will accept a maximum of 2.2v.

Those timings will be fine although i'd have thought you'd get the 5-5-5-15 timings at 2.2v.

TBH i've never found DDR2 to need much tighter timings - with them it's clockspeed. Only DDR1 in my experience benefitted from tight timings.

gt