Im trying to decide on good ram for overclocking stable for games. I'm looking at G.skill, Patriot, or Corsair. I'm abit out of touch from overclocking about 6 yrs and much has changed.
My system
P7P55D-Pro socket 1156 I do have all the tweaks including xmp ram.
atm im running 09 bios but there are updates that introduce memory compats.
I5 -750 (2.66 ghtz) unlocked lynfield stepping 5rev b1 that has a 21x mult default.
Rasa waterblock kit http://www.frozencpu.com/products/1...tor_Water_Cooling_Kit_Hot_Item.html?tl=g30c83 ambient temp around 18c / cpu idle same / cpu prime 95 gunned around 42c all clocking is default atm
I have no problem dropping the liquid temps to lower levels, wee bit ago I ran a -6C pre-cpu system for several months, I know the tricks, I wont let cpu temps over 50C keep that in mind.
Nvidia single 260 pcie vid card
2 hard drives wd blue runs win7 x64 and wd black runs games.. Not using raid.
Ram atm generic supertalent 1333 4gb (2-2gb chips) 9-9-9-24
with this ram I can get upto 3.3ghtz with 199 x 17 it is unstable but acceptable temps. I havent spent much time with timings or skew but once I get decent ram I will.
What im looking for is 4-8 gb of decent ram to overclock with, I'd be happy with 3.0+ ghtz on chip around 160+FSB stable.
I have a set of bios settings for this setup, however they might be old, post if you have them.
1600 ram or will this board accept higher?
XMP or not?
Help please!
My system
P7P55D-Pro socket 1156 I do have all the tweaks including xmp ram.
atm im running 09 bios but there are updates that introduce memory compats.
I5 -750 (2.66 ghtz) unlocked lynfield stepping 5rev b1 that has a 21x mult default.
Rasa waterblock kit http://www.frozencpu.com/products/1...tor_Water_Cooling_Kit_Hot_Item.html?tl=g30c83 ambient temp around 18c / cpu idle same / cpu prime 95 gunned around 42c all clocking is default atm
I have no problem dropping the liquid temps to lower levels, wee bit ago I ran a -6C pre-cpu system for several months, I know the tricks, I wont let cpu temps over 50C keep that in mind.
Nvidia single 260 pcie vid card
2 hard drives wd blue runs win7 x64 and wd black runs games.. Not using raid.
Ram atm generic supertalent 1333 4gb (2-2gb chips) 9-9-9-24
with this ram I can get upto 3.3ghtz with 199 x 17 it is unstable but acceptable temps. I havent spent much time with timings or skew but once I get decent ram I will.
What im looking for is 4-8 gb of decent ram to overclock with, I'd be happy with 3.0+ ghtz on chip around 160+FSB stable.
I have a set of bios settings for this setup, however they might be old, post if you have them.
1600 ram or will this board accept higher?
XMP or not?
Help please!
