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wow.
Ok. This was suggested by Tony from OCZ. im sure you guys know him.
anyway, i was running into a fsb barrier at 225 fsb with my ocz eb platinum.. i wasnt even prime stable for longer than 10 minutes. This is on an AMD platform, nforce 2 Abit nf7 2.0
the timings i was using were 2.5-3-2-8 the default timings for the ram. @ 2.98 volts to memory.
Tony suggested to try the pc 3700 ocz eb platinum timings of 3-3-2-10.
so i did, and now im not only prime stable at 225 when i wasnt before, but i figured well now with cas 3 i should be able to gain 5 mhz fsb from the ram. so i started pushing.
225, stable. 228, stable. 230? stable as a rock. but was i done? no. with multiplier at 10, and 1.75 volts to cpu, i kept running with it. 233? no problem. wow. 236? easy.
the magic 240? yup
im priming 244 right now guys, and for an amd system, this is nuts.
now i think that because the OCZ EB series is designed to reduce "noise" from overclocking , the ram is built around its specified timings. any change in these timings causes instability with the ram, for instance, if its 2.5-2-3-8 rather than stock at 2.5-3-2-8, the ram's stability is hugely affected.
so i believe that the ram's "noise" control is based around the 2 sets of timings, the pc 3500 eb's and the pc 3700 eb's.
so thus a small change like that can allow a huge stability and overclocking increase, based on the design of the ram.
once im done testing, ill get some pics for ya.
am i nuts? or is this really neat?
Ok. This was suggested by Tony from OCZ. im sure you guys know him.
anyway, i was running into a fsb barrier at 225 fsb with my ocz eb platinum.. i wasnt even prime stable for longer than 10 minutes. This is on an AMD platform, nforce 2 Abit nf7 2.0
the timings i was using were 2.5-3-2-8 the default timings for the ram. @ 2.98 volts to memory.
Tony suggested to try the pc 3700 ocz eb platinum timings of 3-3-2-10.
so i did, and now im not only prime stable at 225 when i wasnt before, but i figured well now with cas 3 i should be able to gain 5 mhz fsb from the ram. so i started pushing.
225, stable. 228, stable. 230? stable as a rock. but was i done? no. with multiplier at 10, and 1.75 volts to cpu, i kept running with it. 233? no problem. wow. 236? easy.
the magic 240? yup
im priming 244 right now guys, and for an amd system, this is nuts.
now i think that because the OCZ EB series is designed to reduce "noise" from overclocking , the ram is built around its specified timings. any change in these timings causes instability with the ram, for instance, if its 2.5-2-3-8 rather than stock at 2.5-3-2-8, the ram's stability is hugely affected.
so i believe that the ram's "noise" control is based around the 2 sets of timings, the pc 3500 eb's and the pc 3700 eb's.
so thus a small change like that can allow a huge stability and overclocking increase, based on the design of the ram.
once im done testing, ill get some pics for ya.
am i nuts? or is this really neat?