i actually wen tback to stock 3-44-8 cuz of random errors...but its all good everest gives me 7200est bandwith and sisoft gives me around 6200megsdominick32 said:I will give those timings a shot tonight. I actually tried 3-3-3-8 at 280 mhz and the pc froze up on me.. hehe I guess that was a little too much to ask of these sticks.
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G.SKILL Extreme Series 2GB (2 x 1GB) OC Report
- Thread starter dominick32
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You got a nice set there. Mine seem to stop around 270mhz.
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That is definitally a nice set there. Especially pushing 1T.
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Avalanche, Ink,
Thanks for the remarks.
**UPDATE**
I did it!
Finally broke 12,000. Thank you GSkills!!
I raised CPU/RAM to 10 X 277 = 2.77 Ghz 1:1
Raised GPU core to 690 and memory to 732. For some reason with previous testing my memory craps out any higher than 740. Anyway here is is:
Thanks for the remarks.
**UPDATE**
I did it!
Finally broke 12,000. Thank you GSkills!!
I raised CPU/RAM to 10 X 277 = 2.77 Ghz 1:1
Raised GPU core to 690 and memory to 732. For some reason with previous testing my memory craps out any higher than 740. Anyway here is is:
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Congrats on breaking 12k! Can you bench at 280x10?
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inkfx said:
My computer is stable @ 10 X 280. It completes Super PI 32m no problem, and runs dual prime no problem. But recently my PWM IC temperature has been climbing to 52*C under load. Lowering my speed to 2.75 to 2.77 keeps PWM IC temps just below 50*C under load. Until I figure out a way to mount some fans over my power management area on the Ultra-D I am going to keep the clocks below 2.77 ghz. As far as benchmarking, yeah. No problem whatsoever running 3dm05 at 10 X 280.
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It was a rather harrowing weekend, but I'm back. I managed to at least get the sticks to work, but my computer ate my nVidia RAID driver diskette in the process and all the drivers on DFI's site cause errors during the windows installation... Dammit.
Dramatics aside, I've only managed to get 260Mhz at stock timings and stock voltage. At 265, I'll get 4-16 memtest errors per pass in test 5. At 270, I'll get a lot more errors, and at 280, forget about it.
I'm binned at 0603. Maybe I just got a pair of weak sticks? Dom, do you have a fan blowing down on your memory?
Dramatics aside, I've only managed to get 260Mhz at stock timings and stock voltage. At 265, I'll get 4-16 memtest errors per pass in test 5. At 270, I'll get a lot more errors, and at 280, forget about it.
I'm binned at 0603. Maybe I just got a pair of weak sticks? Dom, do you have a fan blowing down on your memory?
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Do you have something like a house fan you can put next to your case just to keep it down during benching? Thats what I do and it drops my temps by like 7-10c. If you dont want to do that you could always buy a new heatsink for it.dominick32 said:My computer is stable @ 10 X 280. It completes Super PI 32m no problem, and runs dual prime no problem. But recently my PWM IC temperature has been climbing to 52*C under load. Lowering my speed to 2.75 to 2.77 keeps PWM IC temps just below 50*C under load. Until I figure out a way to mount some fans over my power management area on the Ultra-D I am going to keep the clocks below 2.77 ghz. As far as benchmarking, yeah. No problem whatsoever running 3dm05 at 10 X 280.
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inkfx said:
I think my best bet is going to be mounting two 72cfm fans a few inches over the power management sinks. This seems to be the best bet to dramatically lower PWM IC temps. I would like to keep my rig stable @ 10X280 all the time, so the actual mounted fans are a necessity for me.
Dom
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Luftwaffle said:
Man,
Thats dissapointing to hear. You sure the bios is set @ 3-4-4-8 timings? I know a trp of 3 causes massive amounts of errors for me at anything over 260 as well. Can you boot into Windows and post up a screenshot of A64Tweaker? Maybe the DFI bios is shooting some random automatic settings into your sticks causing instability. Example: Weird DS/DDS settings or a wrong twcl setting. <---- This number impacts my sticks dramatically on anything other than 1.
Let me know.
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Tonight, when I get home, I'll try setting everything in the BIOS to the settings you have on your CPU-Z screen. The timings are the same as yours, but some of those numbers on the bottom are different, namely the Trc and the DRAM cycle times. If it's no go, I might RMA them and get a new pair.dominick32 said:
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mynihilism said:
Yes, I'm running them on my setup at 265 1:1 and have yet to even push it.
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Luftwaffle said:
I hope I'm no patronizing you by giving you the following. just in case, check to see if your settings are near where mine's at. Perhaps this would allow for slightly higher clocks than the 260 you've received.
Look for my post with settings in the below link.
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=450206
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Personally, I'm willing to try anything at this point. I really don't want to RMA the sticks. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a shot when I get home tonight.protocol_droid said:
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Thoth said:
Definitely keep us posted. I am hoping you achieve the same max OC as me. The ease of obtaining a 280 mhz OC with these sticks only led me to believe that I did not have a "lucky set" but that the new 0603's are actually averaging 270 to 280.
But seeing some of the results from others within this thread led me to believe that maybe my set actually was lucky. Maybe your results will be on par with mine, than I can throw that theory out of the window. So please, as soon as possible post some positive 280 1T results!!
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well i just came to this forum to question the quality of my sticks and ran into this post, so this is probably the best place to ask. i was running my system at 285x9 with the g-skill DDR500 ram @333 on my Asus a8nsli board, but i was having stability issues and decided since i rarely use my CPU past 80% usage i would just back down to 250x9 and run the ram sync at 400mhz which resulted in 250 frequency on the ram, and it was at this point i realized my ram cant even boot into windows at stock timing. i tried memtest at 250 and it failed in the 7th test and i stoped at that. would you say its time to get an RMA, or am i doing something wrong possibly.
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Cow Hunter said:
I dunno about your motherboard, but I have the A8n32-sli and it detects this ram at 3-5-5-10 for some reason or another and with those timings its really really unstable and will fail at the 7th test in memtest, atleast it did for me. So go into your bios and try manually setting your timings to 3-4-4-8 and see if that helps.
