p/// 700 @ 933... I want more...

[engjohn]

I have a p/// 700 running at 933 right now at a voltage of 1.75. Stable as a ROCK. I can even get it to boot into windows 2k at 1.5v and run BrunMMX for about 30 minutes before locking up.

I am stuck at about 933 right now, I believe that it is my ram that is holding me back as tempurature is not an issue(its water cooled).
Right now I have 3 sticks of 128M Micron pc133 cas3 ram.
Abit BE6-2-v2 raid, and an Abit Slocket///.

I was looking at getting some pc150 cas2 ram by Corsair (2 256M sticks @ 100$ each).

Anybody use this ram?
I will be buying in the next few days so any help you guys can offer would be great...

[DocClock aka MadClocker]

Wow, Damn good price, hope they work for you as advertised, if so you will be happy right? unfortunately I have never tried Corsair mem, but I understand it's some of the best.

[Mr. Potatoehead]

I have a bx6.2 and it wouldn't run 933 with more than 2 sticks of memory,
so my suggestion is to try 1 or 2 sticks and see if it goes higher before buying new memory.

[DaveB]

I don't believe it's your Micron SDRAM. Even they're regular CAS3 should be able to go over 140 MHz. Bump the core voltage up. My PIII 700 needed 1.9V to get to 970 MHz and 1.95V to go at 994 MHz. It's been running with the core at 1.9V or higher since July.

[batboy]

Yep, try pulling one module out like Mr. Tater says. My P-III 700 is stable running 933 @ 1.75v too, so you should have lots more left in that chip.

I suppose that mobo doesn't have a memory divider? I can run the memory bus at 3/4 the bus speed if need be on my board.

Another possibility is Windows registry errors. This happen to me recently. My 700 was humming along just fine at 1.07 gig, then I did a bunch of tweaks and benchmarking, next thing I knew, the machine wouldn't start Windows anymore at anything above 980. I had to reinstall Windows from scratch before I could zoom back up to 1071 MHz again.

[Phil]

you should remember that you are already running your agp bus 33% over spec as it is, with the fsb around 150mhz or so you are getting close to a 100mhz agp bus, this should be ok with most nvidia cards but there are the odd few that won't do it, I would say it is more likely the vid card than the memory.