Is this as far as it can go?

[J054]

Yes, place it on the 150 or 166 divider. How many time does one have to say this.

 

10000 :nod:

[Kawasaki 1]

LOL, just checking . Sorry, I had a bad headache at the time I replied.

[J054]

Ok so did what you said...

 

Ram divider at 166

set the ram timings to 2-3-3-6 1t

 

Got 200 more fsb

 

now:

FSB = 260

 

Cpu Speed = 2600 Mhz

Ram Speed = 216 Mhz on a 5/6 divider

 

Should I lower my fsb or try and raise the ram?

[Kawasaki 1]

Ok so did what you said...

 

Ram divider at 166

set the ram timings to 2-3-3-6 1t

 

Got 200 more fsb

 

now:

FSB = 260

 

Cpu Speed = 2600 Mhz

Ram Speed = 216 Mhz on a 5/6 divider

 

Should I lower my fsb or try and raise the ram?

 

Where there any issue's while running at these settings? If so, I would set the mem divider on the150 setting so that it is running as close to 200MHZ as possible. If there were no issue's with the current settings and the system runs prime95 and you pass memtest, you should be ok.

[J054]

Ok ill start prime95, it passed memtest for half an hour, should do more though.

 

If everything passes should I attempt to lower timings to maybe 2-3-2-6 ?

 

Is my goal to try and get both fsb and ram mhz equal to each other? or to raise the fsb even while its higher than ram mhz?

[Kawasaki 1]

Ok ill start prime95, it passed memtest for half an hour, should do more though.

 

If everything passes should I attempt to lower timings to maybe 2-3-2-6 ?

 

Is my goal to try and get both fsb and ram mhz equal to each other? or to raise the fsb even while its higher than ram mhz?

 

Yeah, raise the FSB and keep the ram running around 200mhz. If the ram runs at 216mhz with no issue's and runs prime95 with no issue's then keep it at 166 divider and up the FSB little by little until the ram does not like the overclock. You can try the timings of 2-3-2-6, but it may not work. The lower/tighter the timings are, usually means you want to keep the ram mhz at ddr400 200mhz or even under 200mhz.

[J054]

Well I ran 3d mark and it froze so that was my error sign. I changed to 150 divider and upped the fsb to 268.

 

So now CPU = 2681 Mhz

Ram = 191 Mhz 2-3-3-6

 

Before testing...How does that look?

[Kawasaki 1]

Looks ok to me. Give it a go and see what you get.

[J054]

Well it booted to windows, but froze after a minute or so. So I'm keeping it at a 150 divider and lowering fsb untill stable. Thanks for your help.

[J054]

Ok have some interesting news...

 

My first settings:

FSB 240

Ram on a 1:1 divider at 2.5-3-3-6

 

Second settings:

FSB 260

Ram on a 150 divider at 2-3-3-6

 

So far the first settings got me a higher score in 3d mark 2005.

First settings = 6457

Second settings = 6333