G.Skill / RAID Overclocking Hell

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pseudo22

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O.K., so i've been reading reviews and testimonials saying that G.Skill F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ Ram can be o/c'd to 1000MHz+ but it gives me problems everytime. When I just o/c the processor (I currently have it at 3.0GHz's) everything is fine. My memory voltage is 2.3 when I run it at 1066MHz... also, whenever I o/c my ram I get RAID Access Failure errors (i have 2 Seagate 7200.10's in RAID0) and im pretty worried that something might be "off". Giving more voltage to my CPU stopped the 10 second pauses that I was having in Windows and games so that's fine now, (Running Vista Premium) & I stopped memtest86 @ 2832%, No Errors and ran 2 instances of Super PI 32M and it was fine.

Other voltage settings are:

CPU: 1.325
FSB: 1.3
HT: 1.2
PCI-E: 1.4
nForce: 1.5
AUX: 1.5

Everything is disabled besides execute disabled bit and virtualization (because i dont kno what E.D.B. does and i use virtualization)

CPU 37 degrees
System: 31 degrees
GPU: 59 degrees (8800 gtx.. apparently its 'supposed' to be that hot?) :(

Either way if anyone has any suggestions it would really help me out as this is drivin me crazy. my case is the cm stacker wit 3 side 120mm's one rear 120 and one front 120 (incase its a cooling problem) Even if there might be a better way I can situate the fans or whatever it'd be a big help. Thanks. :)
 
Have you updated your bios, there was a pretty bad issue with those boards and drive corruption. I am looking for the the thread, anyway its not your memory as much as it is the drivers, bios and board.

Well my best guess anyway.
 
Thanks for the posts, im running P25 BIOS that was released i think the 16th? (used to run P24) I havent had any instability with my system and had the Small FFT's Orthos test running for 10 hours. no problems @ 3.0GHz at 1.4V. I'm not comfortable with the temps though -- 59-60 degrees full load) but i was also running memtest and that was like 1960% no errors. Also, no RAID issues. So i guess now i just gotta do trial and error to find the lowest voltage for CPU. (i run my tuniq at 1000rpm's cause i hate the noise but it cools pretty good).

What voltage would you recommend for 3.6GHz for CPU and ram?
 
first I would try 8 x 400 for 3.2 using 2.3 volts for ram and start off with 1.35 volts for cpu and slowly raising vcore till it POSTs (if it will not at 1.35) then add one more increment of Vcore and see if windows will load and you can run Orthos for 15 min, keep adding a notch of Vcore till you can do that.

run ram at 2:1 speed (FSB x 2 800MHz ) advertised timings till we find the top end of the cpu
 
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