G.Skill DDR2-800 Overclock

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Can anyone who already owns this (judging by the # of reviews out there, someone has to own it) memory tell me what kind of an overclock I can expect out of it? I'm looking to do a mild overclock... maybe something in the 220 MHz range... would more volts allow me to run tighter timings?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231098

 

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I have the exact set While they overclock like garbage(maybe high 900's) I'm currently running Orthos stable with small ffts 24/7 but they won't blend at all. ymmv of course, but mine are not good oc'ers at all. If you haven't bought them yet, don't, get DDR2 1066's.

Edit - Of course if you are referring to the AMD rig in your sig, you may be just fine

 

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I actually already have one pair and I just bought another, so...

I'm not looking for these to be oc'ing monsters... I'm only really looking to take my A64 X2 5000+ to something in the 2.8-2.9GHz range... so as long as they can do 225-ish, I'll be happy. Do you think they'd ever do 230 @ 5-5-5-15 @ 2.0-2.1v?

 

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Oh ok, you should be fine then I'd say. I'm terrible when it comes to timings, so I'll leave that one for someone else to handle

 

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well the timings i listed are stock... basically, I'm hoping to take my X2 5000+ to 2990MHz (230x13) on this RAM at stock timings by just increasing VDIMM a bit... you're saying I should have no problems, right?

 

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I would assume not, you are talking about running them at 230fsb which is DDR2 460? They won't be stressed on the higher end at all that's for sure.

 

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Thanks for your suggestions -- I will be trying this tonight when I get off. I'll post results.

 

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Cool, I look forward to seeing how it goes

 

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OldSkool, got it to do 230 @ 2.0v w/ no problems. See my other thread below and thanks again.

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=576617

 

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Awesome! Glad to hear it worked out for ya