Bad OC's w/ Mushkin!!

[infin|ty]

I just got my Mushkin PC-3500 1gig (512x2) lvl2 and I'm having some problems.

I think I got 4,000 more points on my 3Dmark just from the ram w/o the system OCed!! but then when I go to OC it poops on me.

On my old 512mb of crucial pc3700 ram I could get 200x11 and it would be semi unstable.. but could handle it to not get any problems during games etc. vcore was 1.875 I think and vdimm was 2.7.

I put the mushkin in and I cant get it to OC to even to what it used to be. I put it at 200x11 and 1.875vcore and 2.7 vdimm. I think put the vdimm up to 2.9 and still would only go to the desktop and about after 3-5 sec after the welcome screen dropped, or even during that, this blue screen w/ all this info would come up just for an instant and then restart...(not the blue screen of death) some other thing, sometimes it would just restart w/o the blue screen. I put the vcore to as high as 2v and the vdimm only goes to 2.9. Do I have bad ram or what?! wtf is going on?

Stock timeings are 2-2-2-5 I think if that helps, I havent messed w/ those at all.

I've heard so many nice thing from Mushkin and im convinced something must be wrong w/ the ram.

Please help!!
Infin

 

[Below Ambient]

massive voltage and lots of it (3.3v YIKES ).... is needed.. i was thinking the same thing until i finally applied some volts...

im using infinity also

 

[Nookie420]

yup, 2.9vdimm is not nearly enough for bh-5 to be happy.

 

[computerpro3]

gah i suck at figuring out memory speeds on amd systems, whats it running at mhz wise?

 

[NoEcho]

What board allows a vdimm of 3.3? At what voltage are you gaurantied a $200 keychain?

 

[onetwo]

I'm interested in how much voltage the Mushkin PC3500 can handle, as well. I get rock-solid stability with 3.2V @ FSB 230 1:1 and 2-2-2-6 timings, but is this safe to run at all times with stock cooling?

 

[onetwo]

BTW, get an IC7-MAX3 if you want a board that can do up to 3.2VDimm without any physical mods (the ABIT Windows monitoring utility reports something closer to 3.3V).

 

[Drisler]

3.2v gives me 250MHz. No problems..This memory pratically begs for the voltage.


What motherboard are you using?? Have you tried single channel? Maybe 1 stick is bad and it's bringing down the other. Try each in turn and test 216Mhz and at SPD timings with memtest86

gah i suck at figuring out memory speeds on amd systems, whats it running at mhz wise?

It ain't rocket science...all you need to know is 1:1.
See General Forum...read the memory sticky.

 

[Below Ambient]

FYI i run mine at 225 2.9v all the time.. when i want to benchmark or something then i just turn up the vdimm... ill be doing a vdimm mod soon in search of 275 fsb, but for now this is fine...

oh yeah ive had this mushkin for 2 months now and its never run lower than 2.8v... so yes i do believe the mushkin like lots of voltage...

 

[infin|ty]

Originally posted by Below Ambient
im using infinity also

What?

 

[Confused_User]

Originally posted by infin|ty
What?

DFI Infinity, the little brother of the Lanpart revB, its currently one of the best OCing nforce2 board around.

 

[infin|ty]

My brother works at a hardware department, and hes picking up the wire, solder and see if they have a the resistor there too. I have soldering gun for electronics but the tip isnt small enough so I saw that really small tipped one at radio shack so I'll get that soon. I'll tell you how it goes

 

[infin|ty]

Originally posted by Confused_User
DFI Infinity, the little brother of the Lanpart revB, its currently one of the best OCing nforce2 board around.

heh my name is infin|ty I use an ABIT NF7-S you silly sally lol. And do they sell that board at newegg? Could I get a link of where I can buy it if newegg dosnt have?

Edit: I just re-read what you said, and I kinda got the idea you wernt implying i had an infinity...haha sry.

Thanks
Infin|ty