Getting that little extra...

[Jachyra007]

Ok, can anyone give advice on my current settings? I'm looking at 279x9, @ DDR456. Pretty sure that this is stable, but at a higher divider it fails to load memtest, or constantly reboots. I would like to get it up to DDR500, but this issue won't let me use the 180 divider. Would a bios update fix that? I believe that I'm using

6/23/2005-NF-CK804-6A61FD49C-00.

 

I enclosed a link to a pic of my A64 v.6 and cpu-Z v1.33 results

 

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y211/jach...07/untitled.jpg

 

Thanks, Jach

[Jachyra007]

I went to bios and changed a few settings...

 

Drive strength -> 6

Data Drive Str -> 2

LDTx -> auto

DRAM freq -> 9:10

3.4.3.7 -> 3.4.4.7

VDimm 2.7v -> 2.8v

 

Booted to memtest and ran 14 passes of test #5 with 4 errors in DDR501. What else could I do to tighten up my ram and avoid errors? Everything else is pretty much auto or default, still taking it slow since even after all the guides, I'm still not 100% sure on what every setting does or it's over all effect is...

:drool:

[CPDMF]

Try tightening up read preamble to 5.5 and max async latency to 8.0ns. The settings at auto are way too loose.

[learners permit]

Try positioning an 80MM fan over the memory for cooling the module for a short term test.

[Jachyra007]

Ok, I set values for the Max Async, Read Preamble, and bumped it up to a 9:10 divider. Then started running memtest #5 until it got an error, starting at 280 FSB. From 280 down to 277 each value gave errors, all of them on passes #3 and 6. At 276, there were no errors. What do errors on error test 5 mean? I read somewhere here that thet were because the system was running too fast for the ram, or is it vise-versa?

 

So close to a stable ddr500, and a 2.5Ghz, what else can I tweak out of the auto settings?

[Jachyra007]

a bump in the night....

[learners permit]

You could try switching the position of the ram modules. I've gained a couple mhz memory wise doin this before.

[Jachyra007]

as in, out of orange and into yellow? or swapping them for the other orange slot?

[Kekambas]

yes, orange slots are the best in 95% of cases ive seen...however....my 3000+ stopped oc'ing at almost the same spot as yours and im also using OCZ ram (not same type though).

 

try switching to yellow; thats what i hadta do.

 

cz

[Jachyra007]

It's not that it stopped o/cing, its that any higher on the FSB on the 9:10 divider the ram starts giving errors on test#5. I know my 3000+ is capable of at least 280x9, but the ram doesn't want to be stable at any higher than what i have now - 276x9 @ 9:10. I'm pretty sure it has to do with timings, if i can just squeeze 2.5ghz and ddr500 out, i would be a happy camper

 

I'll try the slot switch and see what happens though, and report later...