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ochungry

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Austin, Texas
Ok, I finally have a grasp of OC'ng my machine @ 1:1 ratio.
I tried odd ratios and just raised my mem speed and got some good benchmarks for it. But this 1:1 ram:fsb gives me about 1500mb/s more bandwidth and have tried it and is faster. The problem is that my mobo cant go higher than 232fsb, and there is no volt setting for ram. I can raise my vcore to 1.55v but did not need it w/ these patriot XBLK DDR400.
Here what I have done: 232x9 to get 2088mhz for my A64 3000+ and ram at 232 MHz 2.5-3-3-8.wish could have done more if had better mobo, but for a noob it is a good starter. hopefully I can find a bios that can hotflash it. not yet because am waiting for chaintech updates since its a new mobo out w/ ULi m1689. nuff said lets get back to business.
my vcore is set to 1.475v. With this timing, machine is stable. and I get 7422mb/s bandwidth and broken down in my Everest benchmark to: 6099mb/s read, 2537 Mb/s write and 44.5 ns latency. I had better latency without 1:1 but lower bandwidth.
Please take a look at this Benchmark and tell me if is any good, or can do better.
Thanks for the help.
Please scroll down to get to ram benchmark
 
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Thanks to burn-ins for cpu and ram, now I am able to change my ram timing to 2-3-3-6. I used CPUBurn-in and Prime95 (ram torture) both at the same time for 12 hours and now I get better results. These burn-in programs really work. I strongly suggest to everyone to burn-in 24-48 hrs before OC’NG and then get their limits on OC and burn-in again 12-24 hrs(both programs).
although I did not get much improvements on read and write w/ new setting(2-3-3-6), my ram latency dropped to 43ns, a 1.5ns improvement.
I am burning-in more w/ this new setting and try tighter timing and will let you all know.
Incase wants proof Here it is.
Thanks
 
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