0437 Winchester, bad week?

Your memory should, at least I would think so...but if you are one of the unlucky ones to get a winnie with a crappy memory controller...then it is only going to run as fast as the CPU will let it ...

And it is starting to sound like this is the issue...

Actually, from my sketchy recollection, not scientific, I have seen some 0437 Winchester doing well for the pre-044x chips. For example, listed in
939 FX, Winchester, NewCastle

ADA3000DIK4BI CBBFD 0437 WPAW 2700 MHz (300.0 x 9.0) 1.53 V memory 245 MHz 2.5-4-4- 7 1T 2.80 V LDT x3.0 (Osirus) details **

ADA3000DIK4BI CBBFD 0437 VPAW 2600 MHz (289.0 x 9.0) 1.55 V memory 185 MHz 2.5-3-3- 8 1T 2.70 V LDT x3.0 (mustrum) details **

240fsb dual channel is alot to ask for corsair xms ram unless its tccc or better. single channel is very doable, even my corsair value did 240 but in dual channel it wasnt stable at 215 but did do 200 fine. sold it for tccd and now I can do 250-255fsb which is my ondie controller's limit. can you take one stick out and see if you can get higher?

After reading a bit bit more on it, I think my RAM is what is holding me up. I went to the Corsair help forums and from what I read the sticks I have (TwinX 3200c2) can only run up to 220MHz stable without some kind of volt mod. Right now I'm at 11x219@2408MHz with the memory 1:1 at 2.5-3-3-8 1t. With Super Pi and 3DMarks "01-"05 stable. I do n't want to buy new memory anytime soon so to get a higher clock I'm gonna have to go with the memory divider. My question is does this really hurt performance using a divider? But, I was using a divider before untill I started testing today running it at 1:1 and still hit a wall at around 2.4GHz. Any other suggestions?

sell your ram and get tccd or use your 11x multi and run 1:1 running your ram async reduces your ram bandwith and kills your performance, it cost me 150MHz so I run 250x9 1:1 for 24/7 usage, 262x9 for 3dmarking

Well I got the chip in question clocked to 2.6GHz pretty stable (SuperPi , 3DMark '01-'05, and AquaMark all with awesome scores!) but Prime fails after about 10 minutes. Anyway I don't really need to be running it this juiced except to see what I can benchmark. My settings are:
260x10
RAM at 216MHz with the 166 divider, 2.5-3-3-8 1t
RAM voltage 2.70v
VCore 1.55 and +5% over VID in BIOS
Isn't there some issue about Winchester's having problems with Prime? If that is the case then I should just forget about Prime and be happy.

JonEapples said:

Isn't there some issue about Winchester's having problems with Prime? If that is the case then I should just forget about Prime and be happy.

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Yes there is issue(s) with newer winnies...so dont put too much faith in prime...if your system is able to run all of those programs...and still game for a few hours...you are stable...