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Figured I ought to start this thread while i'm here. I began using the OC guide on here, but ran into a problem with the memory overclocking. Forgot to list my ram, currently only 1G, the other went dead. Corsair Dominator TWINX2024-8500D 5-5-5-15.
I got through the guide fine until the section on memory overclocking. I set the initial settings in my bios, but my pc wouldn't post. cpu was only are 1.96, but it would slow it down to booot after 1 or 2 reboots. So I know I can't begin testing with the recommended settings. On top of that, to fix this problem, while not accidently skewing my testing results, I'm not sure where to start.
In the guide, the "base" setup has all volts at +0.01. my ram is +0.02 per manufacturer setting (2.1). Although for the memory testing it is implied that teh DDR2/DDR3 volt is the only one that should not be lowered to normal. This is where I'm not quite sure what to adjust.
Lowering the Host Freqency seems to be the obvious choice to me, since that is the only setting adjuted in this section. Although due to the V droop on the board, increasing the volts back to +0.01 might be a more logical answer. I haven't tried this yet to see if it would even work. Finally there is the Multiplier, obviously. Since I do not know why the author chose the initial settings, there may be reason for me to change the multiplier AND the Host Frequency.
I didn't want to skip that section of the guide, I would like to optimize everything as best it can. Currently I'm at 3.38 with core volt at 1.376, I'm not going to push this anymore, was seeing what I could reach today while taking care of other things. both cpu and video are water cooled, Exos II, so my temps are fine. I've stressed it a bit, but only to make sure I wouldn't crash in the middle of something. Time to restart and do this correctly so I would greatly appreciate any input. All I have left right now is to stress my graphics for several hours and probably flash a stable overclock.
I got through the guide fine until the section on memory overclocking. I set the initial settings in my bios, but my pc wouldn't post. cpu was only are 1.96, but it would slow it down to booot after 1 or 2 reboots. So I know I can't begin testing with the recommended settings. On top of that, to fix this problem, while not accidently skewing my testing results, I'm not sure where to start.
In the guide, the "base" setup has all volts at +0.01. my ram is +0.02 per manufacturer setting (2.1). Although for the memory testing it is implied that teh DDR2/DDR3 volt is the only one that should not be lowered to normal. This is where I'm not quite sure what to adjust.
Lowering the Host Freqency seems to be the obvious choice to me, since that is the only setting adjuted in this section. Although due to the V droop on the board, increasing the volts back to +0.01 might be a more logical answer. I haven't tried this yet to see if it would even work. Finally there is the Multiplier, obviously. Since I do not know why the author chose the initial settings, there may be reason for me to change the multiplier AND the Host Frequency.
I didn't want to skip that section of the guide, I would like to optimize everything as best it can. Currently I'm at 3.38 with core volt at 1.376, I'm not going to push this anymore, was seeing what I could reach today while taking care of other things. both cpu and video are water cooled, Exos II, so my temps are fine. I've stressed it a bit, but only to make sure I wouldn't crash in the middle of something. Time to restart and do this correctly so I would greatly appreciate any input. All I have left right now is to stress my graphics for several hours and probably flash a stable overclock.
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