Who would've thought it possible?
I'm running el-cheapo 7 ns Hynix DDR (see sig - I'm not gonna put my new speeds until I can confirm full stability), at a whopping 200 FSB. No stress testing done to confirm stability, just the first 10% of memtest86 to confirm that windows wouldn't bork on me.
I started small - my frst try was 170, second was 175, and the third time I just pushed it straight to 200. Couldn't resist. The time between hitting the 'y' key in Bios, to the beep, was the longest 5 seconds of my life, I tell you!!
Happy to say, all stable so far - haven't yet played any games. Unfortunately the timings are very loose as of now - I'm not taking any chances. I've also upped vDimm to 2.7 from the default 2.6.
The memory is running at 3-4-4-11, not really a speed demon but I've not yet risked it all - learning as I go. I bumped the multi on the CPU now down to 11, so it's running at 2200 MHz, so a slight OC on that too, and it's nice and cool at idle (I count surfing and the ocforums as idle, for the pc atleast). as I said no load testing but while running mtest it seems not to be generating any extra heat - stock voltage and HSF, that too!!!
Tomorrow night if I get back from work early I'm gonna try push her down to 2.5 CAS and see how that goes - not too optimistic as the mem didn't mind running at 166 but didn't boot with CAS 2 at all, and adding vDimm didn't seem to help....
I'd be ultra-happy if she remained @200 FSB at 2.5-3-3-something, though I'm not sure that's realistic...
More, later.
I'm running el-cheapo 7 ns Hynix DDR (see sig - I'm not gonna put my new speeds until I can confirm full stability), at a whopping 200 FSB. No stress testing done to confirm stability, just the first 10% of memtest86 to confirm that windows wouldn't bork on me.
I started small - my frst try was 170, second was 175, and the third time I just pushed it straight to 200. Couldn't resist. The time between hitting the 'y' key in Bios, to the beep, was the longest 5 seconds of my life, I tell you!!
Happy to say, all stable so far - haven't yet played any games. Unfortunately the timings are very loose as of now - I'm not taking any chances. I've also upped vDimm to 2.7 from the default 2.6.
The memory is running at 3-4-4-11, not really a speed demon but I've not yet risked it all - learning as I go. I bumped the multi on the CPU now down to 11, so it's running at 2200 MHz, so a slight OC on that too, and it's nice and cool at idle (I count surfing and the ocforums as idle, for the pc atleast). as I said no load testing but while running mtest it seems not to be generating any extra heat - stock voltage and HSF, that too!!!
Tomorrow night if I get back from work early I'm gonna try push her down to 2.5 CAS and see how that goes - not too optimistic as the mem didn't mind running at 166 but didn't boot with CAS 2 at all, and adding vDimm didn't seem to help....
I'd be ultra-happy if she remained @200 FSB at 2.5-3-3-something, though I'm not sure that's realistic...
More, later.