how exactly do you overclock ram?

[Jeff Bolton]

i have 512mb of crucial cas2 pc133 ram. i want to overclock it a few mhz so its a little bit faster than my FSB. i know there are setting in the bios for making it run faster but i was wondering if there was another way to do it. i've heard people talk about having their ram at specific mhz...150, 166, etc. thanks for any replies. :)

jeff

[flounder43]

FSB is the RAM speed, unless your motherboard does something really special.

[Jeff Bolton]

oh, you learn something new every day. i feel REALLY dumb now, like i don't know what i'm talking about. prolly cause i dont :rolleyes:

thanks flounder.

jeff

[flounder43]

There are other things that you can do to increase you ram's performance, however. There are certain settings in the bios, like the cas timings, interleave, etc. That I really don't know too much about, however.

BTW, not at all a dumb question. We all had to ask about that at some time...

[Ifishsum]

My Via board has a setting to overclock(or underclock) the RAM by the PCI bus speed ie hostclk+pci clk. My current ram wont do it at either cas2 or 3 but got a stick of PC150cas2 on the way:).