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latief75

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i bought a stick of patriot extreme memory 512mb last sept. it was supposed to work at 2-3-2-5-1 at 2.6v .....

it refused to work at that rating on abit KV8pro .....i could get it to work at cas2.5

recently i bought a second stick ..........the same on paper .. but it seems they updated their stick this one works perfeclty on the published timings of 2-3-2-5-1t and it is set by SPD unlike the previous stick .......

oh and the new stick has a voltage of 2.5 .......

i could get them both to run at the rated speed if i bump the voltage up to 2.7 ...will that harm my ram ? advice me guys , i can't send back the old stick ... it is too late ... what would you do in this situation ???
 
meh, you should have rma'ed that stick back in the first place when it wouldn't work :(

but.. i would put both in, and accomodate for the lame stick. if it means raising the cas latency again or bumping up ram voltage, so be it
 
at the time when i got the stick, i thought the problem was with my motherboard, some incompatibilty issue .....

but once i got the second stick , i realized i was rippef off on the first one .......

so can i put the voltage for both at 2.7 ???? will that hurt the sticks ?
 
latief75 said:
at the time when i got the stick, i thought the problem was with my motherboard, some incompatibilty issue .....

but once i got the second stick , i realized i was rippef off on the first one .......

so can i put the voltage for both at 2.7 ???? will that hurt the sticks ?
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the "unofficial maximum safe zone" for ram voltage before you have to worry about anything at all is 2.8V, so yes you can.
 
can someone explain to me why bumping up the voltage makes ram more stable?

i'm a newbie in overclocking .......

thanks guys .....
 
as a general rule of thumb for all transistor based computer parts:

more voltage = higher mhz stable
lower temperature = higher mhz stable

but, more voltage reduces lifespan, while lower temps increases.
i won't get into detail on why this is, just accept that things typically scale upward with voltage :D
 
another question,

why is it that when i put each stick in separately they post as DDR400 automatically,

but once i put in both, they post as ddr333, i have to set them manually in bios.......

also, no matter what i do, CMD value is always 2, and i understand that CMD 1 should be faster ..

My Mobo is ABIT KV8pro ... socket 754 .....Newcastle 3000+
 
i have the latest bios ..........


i did change stick locations but nothing ..... any ideas why ?
 
well, two sticks should be 200mhz, 1T. i think your mobo is hating on you. email abit and explain what's going on.
 
could this be happening because one of my sticks is a bit faster ?

also, could someone explain to me what are the restirctions(or limitations) of having double sided memory in all your memory slots ?
 
for s754 and before revE...

3 double sided sticks = 166mhz, 2T
3 single sided sticks = 200mhz, 2T

everything else, you shouldn't have to worry about, especially only two sticks
 
it looks like i'll be selling my older patriot stick, there is nothing wrong with it , but i think my Mobo does not like the fact that the two sticks have different specs.... is the move from cas 2.5 to cas 2 worth it ?
i'm running now 2.5-3-2-5-1 at stock Voltage ....(actually, i'm not sure if CMD is 1) bios says 1 sandra reports 2....!!!!

if i sell and get the different version of the stick i'll be running at 2-3-2-5-1....

is this worth it ??????? will the performance be any better ?
 
If you're in some sort of benchmarking/overclocking competition, then it's worth it. If you're trying to squeeze out more frames in your games, then yer barkin' up the wrong tree. Go for more MHz and forget the low timings. I say it's not worth it!
 
i actually decided to sell it, it is auctioned on ebay .....

the sligthly different timings are causing me stability issues...... unless i set the timing to 3-3-3 , which defeats the purpose of buying this stuff in the first place ......
 
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