Patriot DDR667 XPS700 Bad results

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cmacclel

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My XPS700 came with 1gb of Nanya DDR667. I can overclock to a 300mhz bus and the system is stable. Since I heard that these ship with crappy ram I picked up a 2gb set of the patriot memory that everyone is loving for the price and overclockability. Bad thing is I can't even get to 300mhz with it. I guess I might of got a BUM set of mem sticks or the XPS700 is picky.


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fsb != memory speed ;)

what is the memory ratio at? and the timings? voltage? how do you know it's the ram limiting you? :p
 
The memory ratio is at 4/5 and I cannot change it with the Dell system. How do I know it's the ram? What else would it be if the Nanya sticks that came with the machine run at 300mhz FSB stable then without changing anything I install the Partiot memory and the machine crashes at 290Mhz FSB.

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I'm not familiar with the XPS system you have......however if your raising the FSB your also raising the CPU speed........what mobo is in this system? Could be a lot of things.
 
Chris Lakies said:
I'm not familiar with the XPS system you have......however if your raising the FSB your also raising the CPU speed........what mobo is in this system? Could be a lot of things.
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It has a Dell motherboard with the 590SLI chipset. I have overlclocked my systems since the Celeron 300A and I know there are TONS of variables in overclocking but in this situation my statement is the Patriot Memery is worse than the factory Nanya memory Dell included with the system.


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It's a brand new machine there is not much info on it yet. It came with 1.8v DDR667 and thats the same spec as the patriot memory.


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I just got them memory and it was a little rocky at first. Did you change the voltage settings? What about the timings?
 
cmacclel said:
My XPS700 came with 1gb of Nanya DDR667. I can overclock to a 300mhz bus and the system is stable. Since I heard that these ship with crappy ram I picked up a 2gb set of the patriot memory that everyone is loving for the price and overclockability. Bad thing is I can't even get to 300mhz with it. I guess I might of got a BUM set of mem sticks or the XPS700 is picky.


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Hey, I too am waitng to recieve my XPS 700. Any chance you can post some pics of your system. Oh and I read on the Dell forums that some people are running DDR2 800 memory in their 700s you might want to look into that.
 
I have 2gb of DDR533 Micron memory in it now and it fine. At stock clocks it has the fastest bandwidth of the 3 memories I've tried.It's a pretty nice machine though a TAD BIG & HEAVY :) Slightly overclocked I score 8000 in 3dMark06 with 2 7900gs's


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