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Memory first or leave it alone ?

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MrEd

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Ok, here come the questions :D
So I've got a bunch of guides about overclocking that I've printed, reading only goes so far though then it's time to get your feet wet. I've studied my bios a lot and pretty much know where everything's at, but that certainly doesn't mean I know what the heck everything does or affects. One thing I noticed is that my ram is not currently set at it's rated spped or timings, I'm assuming becasue some default auto settings have it at what's it's currently running which is 5 5 5 18 2T, voltage is at 1.88. My first noob question is, should I get the ram to what it's rated at before I overclock the CPU ? or leave it alone until later.



I'm on a Striker MB, X6800 Conroe, and Corsair DDR2 1111 ram.
 
Umm, anyone ?

at this rate the other 4 or 5 questions I have are going to take a week or two to get out of you guys lmao :D
 
Im not sure if you should change it or leave it alone but it saysyour ram is running at 400 mhz but the actual speed of it is 800(you multiply it by two for ddr).
 
Leave it alone for now, I made that mistake when I started overclocking my system a few days ago and I lost lots of time chasing down other problems that were caused by the ram. I would say to leave the ram alone, and start with your fsb, then your cpu, and finally your ram. With our boards we can set the fsb to unlinked and have the ram running at whatever the default is while overclocking the fsb.

You should lower your cpu multiplier to 8 or 7, and start upping the fsb until it is no longer stable, then increase the voltage, and continue the same process until you find the highest fsb you are able to run. Hopefully it will be in the upper 400s, low 500s if your lucky.

Then you will know the max fsb you can use, so go back and lower the fsb, raise your multiplier and start the process over again until you hit the limit for your cpu. Then once you are satisfied or at your board/cpu limits you can start testing out ram settings.

Just remember to take your time, change one thing, then test. Dont be a fool like me and change something and forget to test it, and wonder why you have problems. This will save you a lot of time.
 
Thats what I was looking for, thanks a bunch. I kinda had a feeling that's what I should do but I really wanted some confirmation from someone who knew rather than just my own gut feeling based on a guess.
 
If you want to check the timings on the memory and test as well use memtest 86+ http://www.memtest.org/#screen

Make an ISO image on a cd and then boot from it.

If it crashes when you change the timings a reboot simply resets by itself. Use test number 5 for at least ten minutes or three loops for stability check.

Once you find the tight timings you can then enter them into the BIOS.

Good luck
 
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