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I've been testing my machine to see how far i can overclock, i've wanted to get to at least 2400, but ran into a snag last night. I had my fsb at 213x11, with stock memory timings, vcore=1.65, mem=2.75.....like that everything is stable, prime and memtest passed with flying colors, but i can not go any higher then that with that multiplier because of my ram.
So i changed the multiplier to 10, raised my fsb to 240, set my divider at 166, changed my HT from 4x to 3x (is that right to do that?), still had my ram at stock settings which are 2.5, 3, 3, 8, 2t and everything booted up fine so now i was at 2400 like i wanted to be. I ran pcmark 2004 and 3dmark03, 05 did not have any crashes. Played some games and did not see any problems. Before i went to bed i started prime, put the priority to 10 (is that right as well?) and let it go. Got up this morning to see it had failed at about 27 minutes.
My question is where do i go next? I'm thinking the only thing i have left is to relax the timings on my RAM and maybe that's why it failed. My temps were fine, i had watched prime for about 10 minutes and the temps never went above 48. Any suggestions....also what would be the benefit of me changing the multiplier to 9x266 and going from there, i don't see why that makes a difference from 10x240? I'm very tired this morning and not thinking staight so if i left any info out please call me out on it. thanks.
So i changed the multiplier to 10, raised my fsb to 240, set my divider at 166, changed my HT from 4x to 3x (is that right to do that?), still had my ram at stock settings which are 2.5, 3, 3, 8, 2t and everything booted up fine so now i was at 2400 like i wanted to be. I ran pcmark 2004 and 3dmark03, 05 did not have any crashes. Played some games and did not see any problems. Before i went to bed i started prime, put the priority to 10 (is that right as well?) and let it go. Got up this morning to see it had failed at about 27 minutes.
My question is where do i go next? I'm thinking the only thing i have left is to relax the timings on my RAM and maybe that's why it failed. My temps were fine, i had watched prime for about 10 minutes and the temps never went above 48. Any suggestions....also what would be the benefit of me changing the multiplier to 9x266 and going from there, i don't see why that makes a difference from 10x240? I'm very tired this morning and not thinking staight so if i left any info out please call me out on it. thanks.