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stang8118

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May 28, 2004
atm i am running my memory at 166fsb divider, would going lower to increase my HTT end up hurting my performance? Is 166 pretty much the limit for downclocking ram? I am running an a64 2800 btw.
 
this mnay be looked at in different ways but just guessing right off the bat what your looking for, i would say you need to try to increase your ram.. not lower it .. any real performance your gonna see is from your ram speed..

your ram is running 450 ish ?? from sig ??

i would say try even loosening your timings a tad bit more and going further.. see what you come up with ..

do you have sandra ?? test it and see the increase/decrease

im betting no matter what you do, if you lower your ram speed that you will loose ..
unless you gain it back with higher clock speeds, but i doubt it ...
 
also can you post your full ram timings that you have set on your board ... maybe the problem of higher clock speeds are there .. who knows, worth a shot ..
 
Use whatever divider you need and ignore what people would call "excessive" if 166 is the max of the RAM keep forcing it back down
 
how much you talking about dropping it ?? and what is your current htt now ?? what are you trying to achieve ???
 
stang, whats the vCore on your 2800+?? id do anything to get 2.4, and my ram is definately keeping me back. you havethe dfi lanparty ut 250gb according to your sig, so doesnt your motherboard have 150 and 140 dividers?? those would keep you pretty well suited for the ram thing. i wish i picked up the ut 250gb. regrets regrets regrets. :cry:
 
Ultra.DR said:
how much you talking about dropping it ?? and what is your current htt now ?? what are you trying to achieve ???


I was thinking of dropping it to the setting under 166fsb (which is i believe 150 on my board). I might try to loosen up my timings a bit, maybe more like 2.5-4-4-10ish and keep it at 166. I got my h20 stuff coming in the mail and i know my ram is really holding me back from getting over 300htt stable, but maybe at looser timings i can get over 300htt.

CCUABIDExORxDIE said:
stang, whats the vCore on your 2800+?? id do anything to get 2.4, and my ram is definately keeping me back. you havethe dfi lanparty ut 250gb according to your sig, so doesnt your motherboard have 150 and 140 dividers?? those would keep you pretty well suited for the ram thing. i wish i picked up the ut 250gb. regrets regrets regrets. :cry:


Right now my vcore is set to stock @ 275htt. I can get Prime95 stable at 285htt but i need to bump it up .05v. I bench @285htt, but run day to day at stock vcore @275.

I haven't seen many people on this forum with a 2800, but i think i got a pretty darn good OC'r of a chip :) Its a newcastle core btw.
 
im loving my 2800+ newcastle. they seem to be the best 754 overclockers out there. im gonna put the money in and buy myself some new ram so i can finally get to 2.4 or maybe even 2.5ghz. What are you using for cooling on that badboy? i got the cheap 18 dollar all copper Kingwin CU-8025 with a 52 cfm fan on it. im not afraid of no fan noise! im thking of upgrading the heatsink too to an xp-90 when i get all this imaginary cash i need.
 
I am using a TT venus w/80mm fan on it. Keeps it about 37/38idle and about 50 load. I keep it at 3k rpm's though, but it goes up to like 5800rpm. 5800 is way to loud for me, plus it don't cool much better then 3k rpm (maybe about 2-3c cooler full load).
 
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