Hi Folks!
Well...after a long time procrastinating am finally trying to learn about testing and overclocking memory.
What I did so far is load a pair of sticks and boot once with all ram settings on auto. After that, I manually set the speed to their default values, boot to windows and run aida once or twice. Then reboot, increase the speed, boot, run aida, etc until the setup fails to post or can't make it into windows. Then, using the max speed that passed, manually set the memory timings to whatever showed in aida previously at that speed, check that it works then start dropping the timings 1 at a time until it won't boot/pass.
The current results are below. The tridentx look the best so far. Odd that the pi's with tighter timings didn't score as well at 2400. Some weird stuff...I wasn't able to get the evo2's to work at all and I could only get the gkill pi 2400's to run at 2200. After about 5 hours the setup started acting funky (I've got an insulation issue somewhere/somehow) so had to shut down. I didn't have time to try to tighten timings on the 2400 tridentx at any speeds. Figure that next time, I should see if the timings can be tightened at 2400 and up.
So...what do you think? Am I doing this right? 2400 seems to be my sweet spot atm. Any ideas on the evo2's or 2400 pis? Attaching pics of my bios settings so please let me know if there's anything that should be changed. Also didn't play with any of the memory presets so thoughts on those would (of course) also be welcomed.
Thanks mucho mucho!
Well...after a long time procrastinating am finally trying to learn about testing and overclocking memory.
What I did so far is load a pair of sticks and boot once with all ram settings on auto. After that, I manually set the speed to their default values, boot to windows and run aida once or twice. Then reboot, increase the speed, boot, run aida, etc until the setup fails to post or can't make it into windows. Then, using the max speed that passed, manually set the memory timings to whatever showed in aida previously at that speed, check that it works then start dropping the timings 1 at a time until it won't boot/pass.
The current results are below. The tridentx look the best so far. Odd that the pi's with tighter timings didn't score as well at 2400. Some weird stuff...I wasn't able to get the evo2's to work at all and I could only get the gkill pi 2400's to run at 2200. After about 5 hours the setup started acting funky (I've got an insulation issue somewhere/somehow) so had to shut down. I didn't have time to try to tighten timings on the 2400 tridentx at any speeds. Figure that next time, I should see if the timings can be tightened at 2400 and up.
So...what do you think? Am I doing this right? 2400 seems to be my sweet spot atm. Any ideas on the evo2's or 2400 pis? Attaching pics of my bios settings so please let me know if there's anything that should be changed. Also didn't play with any of the memory presets so thoughts on those would (of course) also be welcomed.
Thanks mucho mucho!
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