- Joined
- Sep 5, 2002
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- Ballston Spa, NY
I just installed some OCZ Platinum 1066MHz memory in my comp today... I fired it up and was doing just fine for a few hours at stock settings, then I decided to start playing with the memory to see how fast I could get it running. OCZ claims they test the sticks up to 1200 MHz, so I started bumping it up and got to 1190MHz, it didn't like that at the stock voltage (2.2v), so I bumped it up to 2.25v. It booted into windows, then a minute later, windows crashed while I went to get a glass of water. When I got back it was trying to load windows repair. I restarted the computer and went into bios and it was trying to run my RAS at 6T instead of 18T, that I had it set to... a few were set to about half of what they should be, and one of the timings was at 0T In fact CAS is about the only one that will run where I tell it. Now, nomatter what I do, I cannot tell it to run at 1066 with any realistic timings... it will allow me full control of the timings at any other speed, 800, 667, 533, 400... as I type this It's running at 800 MHz at 4-4-4-12-18.
This motherboard is a piece of crap and I wouldn't be surprised if I damaged it, it won't run any memory (tried 4 different types) within 100 MHz of it's stock speed if I set the FSB over 240 MHz, regardless of chipset voltage, but if I set memory to it's minimum speed (400) I can crank the FSB all the way to 285 MHz. And of course then there's the issue of not being able to adjust the NB multiplier at all even though it's an option in bois... I'm about to throw the thing out the window.
Edit: Ran the blend test on prime 95 for 35 mins at timings of 4-4-4-12-18, 1T @ 800 MHz & 1.9v I just can't see the memory being damaged.
Edit2: Seems to run fine at 5-5-5-15-26, 2T @ 960 MHz & 1.9v... that's funny, I don't remember installing 35Gb of RAM...
This motherboard is a piece of crap and I wouldn't be surprised if I damaged it, it won't run any memory (tried 4 different types) within 100 MHz of it's stock speed if I set the FSB over 240 MHz, regardless of chipset voltage, but if I set memory to it's minimum speed (400) I can crank the FSB all the way to 285 MHz. And of course then there's the issue of not being able to adjust the NB multiplier at all even though it's an option in bois... I'm about to throw the thing out the window.
Edit: Ran the blend test on prime 95 for 35 mins at timings of 4-4-4-12-18, 1T @ 800 MHz & 1.9v I just can't see the memory being damaged.
Edit2: Seems to run fine at 5-5-5-15-26, 2T @ 960 MHz & 1.9v... that's funny, I don't remember installing 35Gb of RAM...
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