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A64 and Memory overclocking questions.

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I'm going to be upgrading to an Athlon 64 shortly. Right now I'm looking at either a 3200+ Winchester or a 3500+ Winchester and a MSI Neo2 Platinum. I have a 1 gig of Mushkin BH5 that I'd like to carry over the system. My question is more about RAM I guess. I know BH5 likes voltage and that the MSI board maxs out at 2.8 I believe. If I weren't concerned about timings, do you think I'd be able to get 250mhz HTT with the BH5 on only 2.8 volts? Or should I sell this RAM and get something like OCZ EL Platinium?
 
joecuddles said:
Sell the ram to me :)

Or just buy a DDR Booster and give it 3.4v ;)
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I've considered the booster. That kind of voltage would require active cooling and would kill the RAM eventually wouldn't it?

The idea here is that I want to get at least 3500+ performance out of the 3200+ and I want to know if the RAM would allow that without taking other measures like the booster.
 
Neo2 has a 2.85v max BIOS voltage setting. You know what your own ram can handle, can it handle 2-2-2 @ 2.85v? You have the ram.

With 3.0v+ you'll need a fan over your ram, nothing more than that. Winnie 3200+'s usually hit 2.4 or so on air, so you should be fine. Test your ram now, see what speeds it handles. It'll be the same on the Neo2. Just update to the 1.36b BIOS, as earlier versions had some issues with BH5.
 
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