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Gawd
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Well I've been reading about OCing alot and think I want to give it a try. So I'm looking to buy some Ballistix 2x1GB memory sticks and OC. I seen where people can hit 2.6-2.7ghz on air cooling. But I've seen that the ballistix usually tap out at 270 which would give you a OC of 2.5ghz. How do you get the most out of your memory? Especially 2x1GB sticks?
 
use dividers... i think

the only reason i'm second guessing myself is because im new to ocing, but if you use a divider with the memory frequency at 270mhz, it would allow your cpu frequency to go higher than 270mhz
 
An HTT of 270 will only give you a clock speed of 2.5ghz if your CPU's muliplier is 9. If its 10, 270mhz will give you 2.7ghz. And so on and so forth. So your example may be your case but its not necessarily everybodies.

So you can get those high clock speeds by either using a higher multiplier (if your chip supports it. on A64 the default multiplier is the max multiplier), or by using a memory divider as Terr0r suggested. So for example, you can set your HTT to 300 wih a multiplier of 9 and get 2.7ghz. At the same time, if you set your memory to the 166 / 200 (5/6) divider your memory speed will be about 250.

Hope this is clear enough. Read the stickied OCing guide for more info.
 
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