[SomaGaze]

I recently completed my water cooling project on my cpu, gpu, and nb to get rid of thermal concerns for overclocking. now its just sheer stability.

prior to water cooling, i couldn't get my 2.8c above a FSB (1:1) of 223. Same thing when i finished installing the water. this led me to believe my RAM was slowing me down. So, i went to a 5:4 and climbed up to a stable 236 FSB.

Right now i am playing with my dimm voltage trying to see if that is the reason my RAM doesn't like going to fast. But, i am not very familiar with RAM timings and can not tell if my timings are to tight for the RAM speeds i want to run.

i have a matched pair of kingston hyper-x pc3200 (1GB). the reference timings i see on the websites say 2-3-2-6-1. but my mobo will only boot to 2.5-4-4-8, not any lower (not sure why one set has 5 #'s and the other has 4). I did get this RAM almost a year ago, so this might be why the new ones advertised are tighter.

I am just wondering if i should loosen those timings, and to what they should be set to. and if i should go higher than the default voltage of 2.6v (mobo has options of 2.65, 2.75, and 2.85)

thanks for the help

Other info: 2.8c, asus p4c800 deluxe

[ResponsiblAdult]

I suggest upping the voltage to 2.7 and see if you can get better timings.

[Archangel4life]

even 2.8 is safe generally, as long as you have heatspreaders on your ram


if you dont, and dont wanna replace your ram, they are cheap at compusa.