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General Tweaks- CPU and Memory settings- Corsair XMS2 DHX

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ShawnV

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Hello!

I found this site while googling about overclocking my RAM.

My computer froze the other day, and she would not boot. Not even POST Really. I turned off the psu and anyways everything was cool but my BIOS settings got reset.

I have a ASUS P5N-T Deluxe motherboard. It was a real b**** to get good BIOS settings, even when not overclocking or anything. (Things seem much better now- I've updated my BIOS from 1106 to 1402.

So anyhow system specs:

From CPU-Z Validated website-
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=618214

Motherboard- ASUS P5N-T Deluxe

CPU- Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450

Memory- Corsair XMS2 DHX TWIN2X4096- 800mhz CL 4-4-4-12
http://www.corsair.com/_datasheets/TWIN2X4096-6400C4DHX.pdf

Basically, I want to tweak everything up properly. I'm not %100 on all of this.
On the ASUS forums when I built this system there were alot of threads about getting the right settings to be stable.

There were posts stating to get a stable system you need to sync up so to speak the RAM timings from my understanding with the CPU etc.

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx...e&id=20080426032326375&page=2&SLanguage=en-us

I'm not all that good with this stuff and I would really appreciate some help with this.

I am using the ASUS ai auto overclock thing right now at about %10. I'm pretty sure everything is not optimized.

I'm sitting at 51 - 58 distance to TJ max on all my cores, so it seems like I have some room. I'm using Windows 7 RC1 which is very stable.

So if you can make better sense then me off all this please, any hints or tips would be great.

I really want to know how far I can push my RAM, if I could get it to 1066?
I think that's way to far though for 800mhz ram, but I do not know much about this.

This is the thread that brought me here:
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=581067

Thank you for any help or suggestions, I really appreciate it.

Shawn
 
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