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I doubt anyone of you guys remember me from the DFI venice oc thread over in the OC section, but it took me about a week and I have finally found the sweet spot of my CPU: 290x9 1.5V
Since I have a 3000+ I dont have a large multiplier, so that meant I needed to raise the FSB a lot. Because I knew all this before I bought my memory I spent a good $65 MORE on the OCZ platinum revision 2 twin pack. It looks awesome, but that's about where my happiness with them end.
@ stock they are supposed to run at 200mhz 2-2-2-5 2.7V
I cannot get them to run at stock speeds because any multiplier below 3/4 and windows wont even boot. This seems to be a common problem with dividers that allow a huge difference between fsb and mem speeds. But! I can still use a 3/4 divider, which at my FSB yeirlds 217mhz. I thought OCZ PLATINUM would be able to do 217mzh at same timings, but nope. I cant even get into windows. just reboots. So I raised the voltage, 2.8, 2.9. 3.0 3.1, even 3.2 freakin volts wont even boot into windows.
ok, maybe my memory is just really picky and won't do 2-2-2-5 at anything over stock. So I set it to 217mhz still and played around with timings. I havent tried every variation but the best timings I got were 2.5.-4-3-7. THAT IS HORRIBLE for only 217mhz. And remember I am trying voltages from the stock 2.7 up to 3.2,
There is the wierd part, I can run the memory all the way up to a 9/10 divider. 1:1 won't work even at 3-4-4-10 and 3.2V, so DDR 580 is out the picture) but at 9/10 I get 261mhz which is a nice jump, but the lowest timings that I can get to pass memtest are 2.5-4-3-8.
with the 5/6 divider I get 241mhz and the max that will pass memtest are 2.5-3-3-7 and I forgot the voltage.I think its 3.0V
Did I just get some horrible sticks?
Since I have a 3000+ I dont have a large multiplier, so that meant I needed to raise the FSB a lot. Because I knew all this before I bought my memory I spent a good $65 MORE on the OCZ platinum revision 2 twin pack. It looks awesome, but that's about where my happiness with them end.
@ stock they are supposed to run at 200mhz 2-2-2-5 2.7V
I cannot get them to run at stock speeds because any multiplier below 3/4 and windows wont even boot. This seems to be a common problem with dividers that allow a huge difference between fsb and mem speeds. But! I can still use a 3/4 divider, which at my FSB yeirlds 217mhz. I thought OCZ PLATINUM would be able to do 217mzh at same timings, but nope. I cant even get into windows. just reboots. So I raised the voltage, 2.8, 2.9. 3.0 3.1, even 3.2 freakin volts wont even boot into windows.
ok, maybe my memory is just really picky and won't do 2-2-2-5 at anything over stock. So I set it to 217mhz still and played around with timings. I havent tried every variation but the best timings I got were 2.5.-4-3-7. THAT IS HORRIBLE for only 217mhz. And remember I am trying voltages from the stock 2.7 up to 3.2,
There is the wierd part, I can run the memory all the way up to a 9/10 divider. 1:1 won't work even at 3-4-4-10 and 3.2V, so DDR 580 is out the picture) but at 9/10 I get 261mhz which is a nice jump, but the lowest timings that I can get to pass memtest are 2.5-4-3-8.
with the 5/6 divider I get 241mhz and the max that will pass memtest are 2.5-3-3-7 and I forgot the voltage.I think its 3.0V
Did I just get some horrible sticks?
