Im so lost...Help

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Hey guys,

im completley new to the o/c game and this forum so please hear me out. Ive tried searching various forums, but I've got myself confused. Currently I have a P2.4b on an ASUS P4PE with 512 OCZ 3500 ram. Im stuck on this whole memory ratio thing. At the moment I've got the 2.4 to 2.92 with 1.625v, FSB 162. Now that I've got this 3500mhz ram I was hoping to o/c this too. At 162FSB in the memory frequency option in the bios I get the options of 408 and 432 something like that. However I can only get it to run at 408mhz with a little extra voltage, even then it still locks up. 432mhz wont boot even though its rated at 433mhz. Can someone please explain what might be wrong.

Cheers

 

[snvpa]

try running memtest. its an independant tester of memory not dependant upon an operating system. your memory might be substandard. also what are your ram timings. they should be under chipset features or advanced options in the bios. people usually list them like 4-3-3-2 starting from the top and moving down to the cas latency which is the most importand setting.

 

[Detract]

These are the details according to the website CL 2.5-3-3 2T Timings 217(433) MHz. At the moment i've left them as "By SPD" in the bios.

 

[mateo]

SPD is a more lax setting; Id try memtest86 and see what you get. It may be a quality issue, or it may just need to be burned in.