Have I hit the limit of my 2.53GHz?

[BuccKevin]

The most I can get right now is 3020MHz @ 1.75V stable. Idle temp is 38 and load temp is 45 with a Swiftech MCX 462 . My memory clock is 159 right now. It's Corsair 3200. Do you guys think I've hit the limit of my cpu or my memory? Maybe my motherboard is a fault because the vcore dips down .1v. I think that might be enough to make it unstable. I can get cpu to over 3.1GHz but it fails prime. So what's the usual limit of the 2.53Ghz? What do you guys think?

 

[jarett]

thats a nice overclock. your memory could hit 200 though, that's what its rated for

 

[pvanosta]

You probably hit the limit on that cpu. It's not your ram. You could run that ram at STRAP LOW 3:4 if your motherboard supports it, and you would gain quite a bit in speed and performance.

My CPU is running at 166 fsb, so my ram at 3:4 is running at 222 MHz (x2 = 444 MHz).

My memory bandwidth is almost equal to the fastest rambus rdram out there. (3364 MB/s according to Sisoft Sandra)...