I have noticed a BIG difference in stability between 1 and two sticks of ram.
As you can see in my sig (Ignore the CPU speed, that's the point of this thread), I use 2 512MB sticks of Kingston KHX-3500.
With 1 stick, my system was stable at 283 fsb (3.40 GHz).
But my memory scores were just OK, because I was getting the benefit of the dual channel DDR.
As soon as I put the second stick in, I could not even run prime95 at 265 fsb, with relaxed ram timings ('By Speed').
3DMark03 also crashes halfway through (which I could run at 283 FSB with 1 stick of ram).
I'm currently using VCore 1.70 (tried 1.675, 1.65, etc), and VRAM is 2.8V (tried 2.7 and 2.6).
There's something F*cked up in the way the system uses this dual ddr capability. (I hope a new BIOS is coming soon). I'm using 1.1 at the moment.
Yes, I get nice memory bandwidth in the 5700's in Sandra, but I lose my overclock in the process. I have not yet found how low I have to go to run Prime95 and 3DMark03 in a stable fashion.
Anyone else seen this?
As you can see in my sig (Ignore the CPU speed, that's the point of this thread), I use 2 512MB sticks of Kingston KHX-3500.
With 1 stick, my system was stable at 283 fsb (3.40 GHz).
But my memory scores were just OK, because I was getting the benefit of the dual channel DDR.
As soon as I put the second stick in, I could not even run prime95 at 265 fsb, with relaxed ram timings ('By Speed').
3DMark03 also crashes halfway through (which I could run at 283 FSB with 1 stick of ram).
I'm currently using VCore 1.70 (tried 1.675, 1.65, etc), and VRAM is 2.8V (tried 2.7 and 2.6).
There's something F*cked up in the way the system uses this dual ddr capability. (I hope a new BIOS is coming soon). I'm using 1.1 at the moment.
Yes, I get nice memory bandwidth in the 5700's in Sandra, but I lose my overclock in the process. I have not yet found how low I have to go to run Prime95 and 3DMark03 in a stable fashion.
Anyone else seen this?