OCZ 3200 Gold "BH-5"

I got a 1 gig kit of this yesterday.it works perfectly fine at stock speeds and I was able to get it memtest stable at 225fsb 1.5-2-2-10 3.3volts but not windows stable.225@2-2-2-10 is not windows stable either.at this point I don't believe it's the ram but a BIOS setting that is causing the instability.I have spent the better part of last night(~5hrs) searching and reading at all of the tweaker forums that I lurk at(ocf,XS,XR,DFI-street,Bleeding edge,etc).
all I really want for now is 221fsb with tight timings across the board not just the big 4.I've been reading alot about Tref and it's influence on stability and i'll most likely spend this morning testing various settings with that.

so at this point if anyone has any tips for tweaking this stuff on the nf3 lanparty I would be very grateful.

here's what i run for old bh5:
1:1,1T,2,2,6,2,9,12,2,2,2,4,3120,1,E,IS,0,L1,7ns,5ns,256clk,E,16x,7x,D

I have used the 1/28 beta with 4v vdimm with great success, there's also the 3/31 beta with 4v vdimm out now.

crimedog said:

here's what i run for old bh5:
1:1,1T,2,2,6,2,9,12,2,2,2,4,3120,1,E,IS,0,L1,7ns,5ns,256clk,E,16x,7x,D

I have used the 1/28 beta with 4v vdimm with great success, there's also the 3/31 beta with 4v vdimm out now.

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thank's I'll give those a shot.I've got the 4volt modded 3/31 on here now.how much voltage does that take for you?

thanks alot those seem to be working pretty well.do you leave them the same as you move upwards in speed and just scale the voltage ?

with a regular 3.3 rail you should get about 3.2v max. I leave the timings the same and crank the voltage and speed. I never had any luck tweaking those settings.

interested in your results

I've got the 3.3 tweaked to 3.6.I'm going to try 240x11 when I get off work around 11 pm est.last night I attempted 237 but I was struggling with the timings at the time and it resulted in thousands of errors in test 5 of memtest.I'm also going to let memtest run while I'm at work with your setup,voltage at 3.2.

well if you're 3.3 line is at 3.6 you should be able to get 3.5v or so on the memory. just put a fan over it and you're gravy, should be good for 250-260mhz

I put a stock a64 fan blowing over(it didn't feel warm anyway),cranked it to 241x11 and 3.5v(acording to bios it's 3.45).it was a no go.test5 gets to 98% and errors out like mad.I watched it hit 48k before I hit esc.maybe some burn time will help.

Right now I have the memory in slots 1 and 3.I don't know if it is going to make a difference or not but I'm going to switch to 1 and 2.