Ram overclocking query

Mr Goat · 26 Jun 2009 at 23:33

Hi all, I'm up to speed on overclocking my cpu and gpu but the ram side of things still hasn't clicked.

My spec:
Gigabyte GA-P31-D3SL motherboard
2 x 2gb OCZ PC2-6400 ram
E2220 CPU @ 3GHz (12x250)

In CPU-Z my 'Rated FSB' is 1000Mz

Now the ram bit I dont quite get/want advice on;
DRAM Frequency = 416.7MHz
FSB : DRAM = 3:5
Timings = 6:7:7:19

Can or should I change the settings in the bios of the ram in order to get better performance?

I think I've tried already and ended up with the above, so any advice greatly appreciated!

Cheers,
Dave B.

Mr Goat · 27 Jun 2009 at 08:51

Cob said:
Timings are a bit tripe tbh. I would set the correct memory voltage and then the advertised timings for your memory (probably 5-5-5-18 or 4-4-4-12).

Should I set the timings manually in the bios? Also, CPU-Z says (on the SPD page) they should be 5-6-6-18@400MHz whereas OCZ says it should be 5-4-4-18? The ram is OCZ2P8004GK

Mr Goat · 27 Jun 2009 at 10:53

Cob said:
Yeah set them manually in BIOS to 5-4-4-18. You'll have to set the DDR2 voltage to 2.1v (probably the +0.3v option in a Gigabyte BIOS).

Cheers, will try it now...

Mr Goat · 27 Jun 2009 at 11:09

Cob said:
Yeah set them manually in BIOS to 5-4-4-18. You'll have to set the DDR2 voltage to 2.1v (probably the +0.3v option in a Gigabyte BIOS).

Right, done this and all seems fine, just running Orthos to see how things cope...