Help with memory overclock

[enigma_uk]

Hello everyone , I am new here so I hope I have posted this in the right place.

Has anyone had problems overclocking Corsair vengence Dual channel DDR3 1600mhz memory ?

System
Asus Crosshair V Formula
AMD Phenom II x4 955 be (overclocked 4.1)
Corsair vengence Dual channel DDR3 1600mhz
Asus GTX560Ti Top

I have read many pages on the net and many have had good results but I fail everytime

Here is my Bios settings

http://img16.imageshack.us/slideshow/player.php?id=img16/3396/1341003240fa8.smil

and overclock

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2422800

 

[EarthDog]

The problem isnt so much in the memory, its in your CPU/IMC. PhenomII's and AMD in general, prior to the Bulldozer release, struggled to get memory much over 1600Mhz. So that may at least be part of the issue.

Good thing overclocking memory yields very little realworld returns.

 

[hokiealumnus]

Moved to the memory section for you.

 

[enigma_uk]

thanks hokiealumnus , knew I would post in wrong place

and thanks EarthDog , what you say explains a lot , I have seen the same memory pushed to 2000 and past but they are all running bulldozers

 

[EarthDog]

That said, there are others far more knowledgable than I in AMD and memory overclocking so hopefully they can come in and help out better than I could.

GL!

 

[trents]

No Earthdog, you said all there is to say except there is no real performance benefit to speak of from anything faster than 1333 mhz. http://www.anandtech.com/show/4503/sandy-bridge-memory-scaling-choosing-the-best-ddr3/6

 

[homebuildit]

No Earthdog, you said all there is to say except there is no real performance benefit to speak of from anything faster than 1333 mhz. http://www.anandtech.com/show/4503/sandy-bridge-memory-scaling-choosing-the-best-ddr3/6

I'm nowhere near the expert here, but your statement is only the case for some categories, according to your link. Another category mentioned was physics, and there was a significant difference in performance depending on ram speed. And that article was only for gaming.

My typical use is quite different. I do SOME gaming, but don't spend much time on it. I'd be more curious to see unorthodox tests. Something like having multiple hundred page pdf documents open while having large CADD assemblies open, scrolling through the pdf pages plus multiple websites. That would be much more relevant to my use, and seems like it would be quite different results than primarily GPU intensive applications.