Upping the voltage on ram

[Streeteh]

Ok, here's the scoop, i had a opteron 170 running at 2.75 ghz and ocz platinum 3200 ram running at 196Mhz (due to a divider) with the timings 2.5-3-3-5 at T2... whatever that means.

I can easily up the cpu to 2.8ghz, possibly further (haven't tried), however i have to lower the divider further as if my ram goes 1mhz above 200 it seems to BSOD in certain games.

After some research i saw that the ram was recommended to run at 2.7V and i was running it at 2.5, so i upped it. Now, fiddling with voltages scares the crap out of me, so all i've done is change the timings to 2-3-2-5 (the stated timings for the ram).

However, the plot thickens further, apparently OCZ have a warranty allowing up to 2.8V to be set on my ram, is it worth it or might it damage the ram?

Also to confuse matters i've got another 2gb of the same type of ram in the post on its way to me.

So basically to sum it up, what would you, the more experienced members, set my ram to do? Up the voltage further? change it to T1? Increase the FSB? or just leave it as it is until my extra 2gb arrives?

 

[Happy]

Basically OCZ have confirmed that the ram can operate fine at 2.8v, however you prob won't need to go that high.
But you will should have no problems when turning it up to 2.7; and then you should be able to overclock it
or tighten the timings or both. In relation to running the ram at 1T, you prob won't be able to if your are going to running 4x1Gb; however not certain, not many motherboards can do it - mine can't Asus M2N32-Sli Deluxe - but don't quote me on that

The main thing to is experiment, just slowly increase it until you feel comfortable; BUT IT SHOULD ABOUT 2.6-2.65 LOWEST!!

Hope that cleared it up a bit

 

[Streeteh]

Cool, thanks for the info, i upped it to 2.8v as i figured that would make certain that my system was stable (had a problem booting up once when at 2.7v), have run a 20 min stress test with no errors so i think i'm ok - was mainly worried that 2.8v would fry it but i guess that was a silly assumption seeing as OCZ would replace it if it did .

After moving the timings to what they were supposed to be i've noticed quite a surprising increase in performance, so i think i might leave things as they are and hope that it'll run at the same settings with 4gb.

After doing some reading around people tend to say the difference between 2t and 1t is negligible so i'm not too upset if i can't pull that off.

To be honest, after running the ram at below what it was capable of for the 2 years i've had this system (only really got into overclocking recently so didn't notice it was at 2.5v), the increase in performance i've gotten from just getting it to run at its spec is a blessing.

 

[Happy]

Glad everything is working out