My 4400+ or my memory

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kaiweiler

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I think I may have hit the max FSB for my 4400+, a big whopping 257...
I can run it stable at 257x11.5 for 2.96Ghz, and I originally thought it was my cheap memory holding me back. Memory is at 844Mhz from 667Mhz.

I tried putting my memory back to 667Mhz and moving to 265x10 on the CPU, which would be a lower total speed but but a higher FSB, and no POST. Tried increasing NB voltage to no avail.

Does this mean that I have hit the max FSB for my 4400+ and it's not my memory holding me back?
 
never say never...

if your sig had a listing of your mobo, ram, cpu, psu etc it would be beneficial to those that are inclined to help here.
 
Most likely you have hit the max for your CPU. The Athlons aren't like Intel Core2 Duos CPUs, many of which will clock 50-100% beyond stock.

My 4200+ would not run 100% stable beyond 2650MHz, so you've got a nice OC there.
 
cpu voltage - 1.4v (1.3v stock)
ram voltage - 1.95v (1.8v stock)
ram timings - 18-6-6-6 (15-5-5-5 stock)
nb voltage - stock but increasing doesn't seem to help.

My motherboard is the Gigabyte MA69G-S3H with F4 BIOS.
Ram is cheap Crucial Rendition DDR2 667Mhz (at 844Mhz)
PSU is a Corsair HX 520

edit, oh and the CPU is an AM2 4400+ Brisbane 65nm
 
kaiweiler said:
cpu voltage - 1.4v (1.3v stock)
ram voltage - 1.95v (1.8v stock)
ram timings - 18-6-6-6 (15-5-5-5 stock)
nb voltage - stock but increasing doesn't seem to help.

My motherboard is the Gigabyte MA69G-S3H with F4 BIOS.
Ram is cheap Crucial Rendition DDR2 667Mhz (at 844Mhz)
PSU is a Corsair HX 520

edit, oh and the CPU is an AM2 4400+ Brisbane 65nm
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hmMm... timings are loose. if you have a friend, i would barrow ddr2-800 and see if you can push the ram a bit higher. you will know in a few minutes if it will boot but the problem is maintaining stability. is your goal to hit 3.0ghz?
 
I never could hit 3.0Ghz with my socket 939 4400 X2. I wound up running it at 2607 where it was 100% stable for over 2 years.
 
LanceDiamond said:
I never could hit 3.0Ghz with my socket 939 4400 X2. I wound up running it at 2607 where it was 100% stable for over 2 years.
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i got a socket 939 hitting 2.74 for the past 2 years stable but man if i was hitting 2.96ghz i would try and squeeze an additional 40mhz to hit the 3ghz. so close!
 
I know, I would not really notice the performance increase of less then 100mhz, but it's just the fact that I'm so close to 3Ghz I can taste it! It'd be a shame if my chip maxed out 45mhz shy of 3ghz...
I don't think it's the RAM anymore that's holding my back. Like I said in my first post, I tried setting the ram back to 667mhz and tried to push the CPU a bit higher, no luck.
 
Reasonable,
I'm at work right now, but if I recall my CPU hits around 54C load (individual cores report lower, don't quite recall now), GPU is about the same. Motherboard temp gets a bit warm at high 50's under load.
Mobo can occasionally hit 60C on a warm day under 100% load.
Typical temps while gaming are more like CPU - 48/49ish, Mobo 49/50ish and GPU 45ish
The individual cores on my CPU report around a 10C difference between core 1 and core , usually 24 and 34.
 
i went home last night and tried to hit 2.9ghz and my computer kept crashing. overall, i say you are one lucky man to have that proc to be able to hit that speed. but like you said, SO CLOSE!!! i would spazz out if i couldn't reach that 3.0ghz hot spot.

Check your hypertransport, is it set to x4 or x5?
whats the clock speed on HTT?
Can you try increasing your cpu to 1.45v.
Now increase clock speed on HTT.
set ram voltage to 2.0v. your timing is loose enough.
check your temps and record it.

I'm not sure how your 65watt brisbane chip will be able to handle the voltages but my cpu is a socket 939 and my voltages are sitting around 1.50v
 
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