System: Barton 2500+, abit NF7-Sv2, watercooled cpu (nb and gpu pending).
I just bought a pair of corsair twinx pc3200ll memory sticks. I threw them in my box and all was good, I got 200mhz (400 ddr) fsb with timings of 2-2-3-6, as it says on the box.
Then I tried to overclock and ran into a few problems...
I can get the system to POST at 230, but it won't boot. I got into windows at 228 and was fine till I tried to do anything, then I got random errors all over the place. At 225 it's almost completely stable but prime95 errors out. Dropping to 220 and setting the RAM to run at half speed gets me absolute rock solid stability. With the RAM at full speed though p95 errors out lots, even with 3-4-4-8 timings. In fact I haven't managed anything much over 400ddr with this memory without p95 erroring.
So the question is, should I send this ram back and get some PC3700 or PC4000 which will mean lower timings but more MHz, or stick with the low latency stuff but drop the fsb. Considering I will (hopefully) soon be watercooling the northbridge, I'm hoping I might be able to push it even higher, but with my current memory I'm really limited.
I just bought a pair of corsair twinx pc3200ll memory sticks. I threw them in my box and all was good, I got 200mhz (400 ddr) fsb with timings of 2-2-3-6, as it says on the box.
Then I tried to overclock and ran into a few problems...
I can get the system to POST at 230, but it won't boot. I got into windows at 228 and was fine till I tried to do anything, then I got random errors all over the place. At 225 it's almost completely stable but prime95 errors out. Dropping to 220 and setting the RAM to run at half speed gets me absolute rock solid stability. With the RAM at full speed though p95 errors out lots, even with 3-4-4-8 timings. In fact I haven't managed anything much over 400ddr with this memory without p95 erroring.
So the question is, should I send this ram back and get some PC3700 or PC4000 which will mean lower timings but more MHz, or stick with the low latency stuff but drop the fsb. Considering I will (hopefully) soon be watercooling the northbridge, I'm hoping I might be able to push it even higher, but with my current memory I'm really limited.