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- Mar 18, 2015
My sig is current ... for today
Im trying to eek a bit of extra out of my ram, not for performance sake, but more for experience. I purchased the ram without any consideration for the cpu (and its max supported speed of 1600 apparently) so I figure why not try to get a little extra out of what Ive got right? Worst case scenario I might learn something about reading first
I understand you dont really have to play with the FSB to overclock a BE chip, but this is how I intended to reach beyond the limits set by the cpu -- ramp up the FSB so I can speed up the ram and then downclock everything else to ranges that I know will work (which as of right now is 3.8 stable for the cpu , but I think I can do better with some tinkering)
Before we get into what exact settings Ive used or anything I just want to know if what Ive done will work (theoretically). Is it good theory ? Have I misunderstood something? Is this something that only sounds good on paper but is truly impossible in the real world, or an I OC'ing incorrectly?
By doing things this way I can bring the cpu up to 3.8 no problem (Using the FSB instead of the multi) , but it wont boot unless I set the RAM close to stock (which defeats the purpose of OC'ing the long way right?)
Edit: I see I forgot to mention that the RAM is 1866 ! whoops
Im trying to eek a bit of extra out of my ram, not for performance sake, but more for experience. I purchased the ram without any consideration for the cpu (and its max supported speed of 1600 apparently) so I figure why not try to get a little extra out of what Ive got right? Worst case scenario I might learn something about reading first
I understand you dont really have to play with the FSB to overclock a BE chip, but this is how I intended to reach beyond the limits set by the cpu -- ramp up the FSB so I can speed up the ram and then downclock everything else to ranges that I know will work (which as of right now is 3.8 stable for the cpu , but I think I can do better with some tinkering)
Before we get into what exact settings Ive used or anything I just want to know if what Ive done will work (theoretically). Is it good theory ? Have I misunderstood something? Is this something that only sounds good on paper but is truly impossible in the real world, or an I OC'ing incorrectly?
By doing things this way I can bring the cpu up to 3.8 no problem (Using the FSB instead of the multi) , but it wont boot unless I set the RAM close to stock (which defeats the purpose of OC'ing the long way right?)
Edit: I see I forgot to mention that the RAM is 1866 ! whoops