stujeffrey Posted February 2, 2006 Posted February 2, 2006 .........like everyone else have had huge problems getting stable, and I think I have experienced everything in the sticky threads. Ballistix being a big part of that.....but now I have got new ones!! hooray!!! I had some dodgy Crucial Ballistix that I bought off of eBay (dont recommend buying memory second hand!) Crucial still swap out 3rd party DIMMS for life on Ballistix so you cant go wrong once they are working. Crucial are good value and the service has certainly made up for the unreliability considering. My new STABLE settings are: 3200+ @ 2500Mhz FSB: 250 LDT: Auto RAM: CL3.4.4.8@250Mhz (1:1) (they are 503s so have to run at CL3 ) LDT: 1.2 CPU Startup: Auto CPU VID: 1.4 Spec CPU VIs: 104% DIMM VOLTAGE: 2.7v (Run at 2.75v as recommended by Crucial) I am running chipset at 1.7v and it is 40c idle and 48c load, think these temps are OK but not sure.....anyone? All other settungs default really, and anything i dont use I disable. That beta bios is good for me and orange slots have certainly secured my stability with the new Crucial Ballistix PC4000 DDR500 2x512Mb. Words of advice if you want a cheap graphics card buy a Sapphire x800 GTO2. I know its only a gap filler, but I run NFS:Most Wanted and Lock On at FULL on all settings and its just beautiful!!! Its overclocked to a x850XTPE with stock cooling (never goes over 45c) and comes modded to 16pipelines out of the box. These are a special edition and I highly recommend. Good Luck! I am actually off to use the thing now :nod: All in all one hell of a beastly PC for £550! NOW A HAPPY MAN!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ooeric Posted February 2, 2006 Posted February 2, 2006 up to 2.9 or 3.0 vdimm and clock it to 300 or something dude Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stujeffrey Posted February 3, 2006 Posted February 3, 2006 As you see from my signature I really dont think I have the power to overclock to 3ghz. It absolutely flys anyway!! I am happy now and staying at these STABLE settings. Just wanted to share my story because I know there are lots of unhappy Ballistix owners out there. Basically if you get a good batch they will run easy! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stone_cold_Jimi Posted February 3, 2006 Posted February 3, 2006 I have run 3-3-2-7 at 250 with them no problem (at 2.7v, I think) - try tightening them up at that speed and see what happens. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stujeffrey Posted February 3, 2006 Posted February 3, 2006 Thanks for the advice, I will give it a try sometime. But I am more about finding stability! I want to leave a little head room, and the performance difference may not be worth risking my stable setup. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TroOper Posted February 3, 2006 Posted February 3, 2006 my ballistix pc4000 run 250mz@ cl2.5 3 3 8 rated speed in cpuz is cl2.5 4 4 10 currently running @270mhz cl3.3.3.8 tho Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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