nopcbs
01-17-04, 07:11 PM
I have one of the classic 1.6 GHz P4 "Woodies" that I have been overclocking to 2.4 GHz using a PC27000 Kingston 512M DIMM. Had the memory voltage upped 0.2v to make things 99% stable. The system would occassionally reboot from a cold start, but once warm it was completely stable.
Recently bought another stick of the same Kingston RAM in preparation for some video editing. Figured that since this was 2 year newer memory it would be at least as stable to o'clocking.
Wrong.
The new DIMM will not allow booking at all with more than a few MHz of overclocking (336 MHz). Once the box is warm, I can increase the oversclocking so I'm running the memory at maybe 343 MHz, but nothing more. Used to be able to run at 354 MHz with the single old stick. And that with cold or hot box.
I know that the cpu speed difference is not much, but it is still disappointing how little headroom Kingston gives you know. I kind of concerned that maybe I should return this new stick as being just too borderline.
Have others experienced the effect where memory that will not cold boot reliably with given settings, runs stable once the computer has had a chance to warm up? Conventional wisdom is to keep things cools as you can. This fles in the face of that.
- nopcbs
Recently bought another stick of the same Kingston RAM in preparation for some video editing. Figured that since this was 2 year newer memory it would be at least as stable to o'clocking.
Wrong.
The new DIMM will not allow booking at all with more than a few MHz of overclocking (336 MHz). Once the box is warm, I can increase the oversclocking so I'm running the memory at maybe 343 MHz, but nothing more. Used to be able to run at 354 MHz with the single old stick. And that with cold or hot box.
I know that the cpu speed difference is not much, but it is still disappointing how little headroom Kingston gives you know. I kind of concerned that maybe I should return this new stick as being just too borderline.
Have others experienced the effect where memory that will not cold boot reliably with given settings, runs stable once the computer has had a chance to warm up? Conventional wisdom is to keep things cools as you can. This fles in the face of that.
- nopcbs