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Tuneman
05-18-07, 09:40 AM
I have kingston value ram, I'm looking for only a moderate overclock. I set the ram timings to 5-5-5-15 and the timing to 1:1. I upped my FSB by 11%, and once I try to go any further bios wont boot up. Once I exit the bios settings the screen goes black and thats it. I tried upping the core voltage to 1.4V and that doesn't help. Should I up the memory voltage, or loosen my ram timings further?

Setup:
e6300
ASUS PL5D2
kingston value ram 5-5-5-15
8800 GTS superclocked

WYTOUT
05-18-07, 10:31 AM
are intent on overclocking the ram too or just the cpu? if you are only trying to get the cpu frequency up (because that ram is probably not a good OC candidate) i'd try a memory divider. or also, have you tried bumping the memory voltage? (be careful about heat)

Tuneman
05-18-07, 10:39 AM
sry for the confusion, yah I just want to OC my processor. 299Mhz Seems to be the fastest before this problem occurs. So what should I set the divider at if I want to get the FSB to 333mhz? Also what is a safe increase in the memory voltage. I would rather tweak that first, then mess with the multiplier.

Also I have room before my RAM tops out, its DDR2 667 ram which would mean I could get the FSB to 333mhz without messing with the multiplier, right?

Tuneman
05-18-07, 03:47 PM
ok I tried increasing the memory voltage to 1.9, that didn't do anything.

Anyone? :(

WYTOUT
05-18-07, 05:56 PM
what's the stock voltage on that memory?
try a divider like 9:8, or 5:4

Tuneman
05-18-07, 06:57 PM
its 1.8, yeah I changed the different dividers and still nothing. When I change the DRAM frequency, thats changing the devider, right?

I think it might have something to do with these 2 options in the memory timing options:

RAS activate time to precharge:15
DRAM write recovery time: 4

Those are the values its set on now, I have no idea what these are, cause I have heard of changing Tras,Trc, or CDC values. But I cannot find those options in BIOS.

pinx
05-19-07, 05:43 AM
You can go to at least 2V, 2.2V wihout additional cooling.

Tuneman
05-19-07, 01:12 PM
would it even help, these are below the RAM's stock speeds.