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- Jun 8, 2005
Hi folks,
just recently I entered the world of overclocking and Im still trying to get to know how things work. I was wondering how do you guys know, when to raise the NB voltage? Also, how do you know when motherboard wont go any further?
The reason Im asking is that I never heard mobos being questioned when raising the FSB. Allways RAM. I just want to make sure I know.
Example:
I got Epox 8rda3i board with 2x512 400DDR Geil Value ram. It passes memtest on 220 FSB ok. But as soon as I go to 225 (up to 224 only return few errors in memtest but enough for me not to use those settings) it wont even boot. Monitor wont start, sometimes I even have to turn off the PSU to restart it. So which one should I blame here? Mobo or RAM?
And btw, Im running Vdimm 2.7V and NB @ 1.8V
Thank you for your answers!
just recently I entered the world of overclocking and Im still trying to get to know how things work. I was wondering how do you guys know, when to raise the NB voltage? Also, how do you know when motherboard wont go any further?
The reason Im asking is that I never heard mobos being questioned when raising the FSB. Allways RAM. I just want to make sure I know.
Example:
I got Epox 8rda3i board with 2x512 400DDR Geil Value ram. It passes memtest on 220 FSB ok. But as soon as I go to 225 (up to 224 only return few errors in memtest but enough for me not to use those settings) it wont even boot. Monitor wont start, sometimes I even have to turn off the PSU to restart it. So which one should I blame here? Mobo or RAM?
And btw, Im running Vdimm 2.7V and NB @ 1.8V
Thank you for your answers!