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Cjwinnit

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I have 1 stick of Crucial PC2700 DDR.
Would it be safe to run it at 177MHz? (it's rated for 166.5Mhz, which makes it a 6% overclock.)
And if i get another identical stick will the system remain stable, and are there cooling problems i should know about?
Thanks in advance!
 
My crucial pc2100 can survive @ 185.
I heard pc2700 is not as sturdy as pc2100, but it should be ok at 354Mhz.
Just try it, your ram won't be fried. At most it will fail to boot up.
 
i have 2 sticks of 256DDR PC2100 (cheapest i could buy) and i can stabily run them at 380 MHZ FSB with a .30 voltage increase and a case fan blowing on it

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System
athlon XP 1800+ (palimino) @ 1773, 2.00 volts
Epox 8K9AI -KT400 - AGP 8x
2x256DDR PC 2100 @ 380 MHZ
Eagle Geforce 4 MX 460 @ 335/515mhz (very crap)
Seagate 40gb
diamond data 40x32x10
hitachi 16x DVD

Cooling
copper heatink with 5000 RPM fan
4 case fans @ 6000 RPM
thermal lake blue orb chipset cooler on GPU
3Dmark 2001 SE score 6001 :(
 
just by raising the fsb your only creating a little more heat on the memory.the problems with toasting ram is when you start adding voltage and then running it higher.

ive run many sticks at 2.9-3v and have never had a problem or one fry.obvously it might happen tho so be carefull.
but long as you dont add voltage ,just increasing the bus speed dont affect it much at all.

speed is fun but voltage kills :D
 
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