overclocking questions (memory)

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maximus1284

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I'm going to be OCing my new computer pretty soon, and I've been reading about OCing on this site for awhile now. I feel like I have a decent handle on OCing my CPU, but I'm kind of confused about what to do with my memory (2 GB corsair 8500 dominator)

first, what settings should be on/off? (evga 680i A1)

2nd, how should I configure my RAM? should I drop timings? increase MHz? set to 1:1? I'm a bit confused about what would be the best configuration as well as the pros/cons, and I don't fully understand what 1:1 means or the other memory configurations


thanks
 
maximus1284 said:
I'm going to be OCing my new computer pretty soon, and I've been reading about OCing on this site for awhile now. I feel like I have a decent handle on OCing my CPU, but I'm kind of confused about what to do with my memory (2 GB corsair 8500 dominator)

first, what settings should be on/off? (evga 680i A1)

2nd, how should I configure my RAM? should I drop timings? increase MHz? set to 1:1? I'm a bit confused about what would be the best configuration as well as the pros/cons, and I don't fully understand what 1:1 means or the other memory configurations


thanks
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I'm interested to see others' responses here also, here is my experience which is only very recent with this system still, but it seems to work great.

I have the memory set to unlinked in the bios and the memory frequency is set to 1200, running 1175 actual as it is still a ratio to the FSB. I manually set the timings to 5-5-5-15 2T, have the voltage set to 2.2 in the bios.

I'm really glad I OC'd this memory to realize why it costs more and performs better, the entire system is more stable after turning it up from 1066mhz, and it's running at the same voltage and timings.

http://s16.photobucket.com/albums/b24/M3Dust/pc/?action=view&current=st2.jpg
 
yeah I've been following the forums for awhile now and can't find out much solid info about the stuff I have questions about. I'll be building my PC tonight (yay!) so I thought I'd ask so I'll have the info for when I decide to OC (maybe next weekend)
 
it doesn't seem like many people on this forum use the dominator, they consider it to be overpriced. I tried both Gskill and crucial ballistix and neither would do anything near what this dominator does. :cool:

I've read that clocking your RAM faster than the FSB stabilizes the system when overclocking, and it seems to prove true. I'm getting stalker in a little bit and finally trying out the new rig on something that will push it.
 
I have a similar question:

Planning to buy an E6300/E6320 and overclock it to 2.8 Ghz. So that means FSB = 400 Mhz, Mult. = 7x

For the most efficient FSB, should I use DDR2-800?
 
maximus1284 said:
2nd, how should I configure my RAM? should I drop timings? increase MHz? set to 1:1? I'm a bit confused about what would be the best configuration as well as the pros/cons, and I don't fully understand what 1:1 means or the other memory configurations
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there is no definite "best" setting in most cases. as a general rule of thumb, there is an ideal tradeoff between timings and mhz, but it's different for most kits and motherboards..

just try a bunch of things, run some benches and see which performs the best :D
and have a look at my sig :p
 
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