Overvolting Kingston HyperX??? Is it SAFE???

[newbienerd]

I have a pair of Kingston Hyper X's that run at stock on 2-2-3-6-1T. Any way of getting tighter timings? Should I try overvolting it and burning it in to try and get tighter timings? or should I leave it at stock? Anyone used this memory before??

[apu318]

Yeah, bump up the voltage by 0.1 or once incriment in your bios and try to tighten your timings. I'm not sure, but I think that is BH-5 or 6? I think those are older sticks, but wait for the ram gurus to post. I'm probably wrong. If you cant tighten the timings then bump up the voltage another notch.

[RedDragonXXX]

Over volting is never safe unless you do it under controlled environment.

[newbienerd]

i have like 5 fans on it... ands i found out theyre ch5

[largon]

If it's CH-5 it should handle voltages all the way up to 3.5V without issues - that's for benching purposes. For 24/7 usage I wouldn't go above 3.3V just to be... err... "safe".

Timings for quick test:
Tcl: 2
Trcd: 2
Tras: 5
Trp: 2
Trc: 7
Trfc: 15
tREF: 1168 (166 7.8us) or 3864 (100mhz 1.95us)

Don't forget to report the results, I'm interested to hear what the old CH-5 is capable of.

[Reefa_Madness]

I recently ran a 2x256MB set of Mushkin Level I 3500 on an MSI K8N Neo2 Plat w/Winchester 3200 at 249 with 2-2-2-6 timings, but it took 3.5v to get there.

Just couldn't get them to 250 and beyond point using BIOS tweaks only...maybe if I had played around with A64 Tweaker I might have gotten the last bit out of it.

Its funny to think that not too, too long ago hitting just under DDR500 speeds with tight timings was a big deal, these days the response is along the lines of "only DDR500?".

[newbienerd]

3.3??? My memory takes 2.6 and I know it's generally not recommended to more than .3 volts. it's a KHX3200AK2/1G

[Fr3@k3r]

3.3??? My memory takes 2.6 and I know it's generally not recommended to more than .3 volts. it's a KHX3200AK2/1G

not true at all..

you can easily run 3.3 on those chips like i did mine and not fry your chips at all..