Should I be satisfied with these speeds?

[Tom Brohanks]

I have my 2800+ at 2205mhz 245FSB

 

My ram is specced at 200mhz(5:6 ratio)

 

Is this normal or should my chip go higher?

[reject]

wat cooling, volts etc.

[soundx98]

seems like your getting a pretty good clock with that PC2700 RAM all ready.

If you can push it higher great, but there's some pretty marvelous RAM out there.

 

Betcha that rig is pretty dang fast right now.

 

Shame that marvelous RAM is always so expensive

 

Two more words - "credit card"

[Tom Brohanks]

seems like your getting a pretty good clock with that PC2700 RAM all ready.

If you can push it higher great, but there's some pretty marvelous RAM out there.

 

Betcha that rig is pretty dang fast right now.

 

Shame that marvelous RAM is always so expensive

 

Two more words - "credit card"

 

Yeah this ram used to run at 219 FSB in my XP machine!

 

To answer the other poster:

 

I'm at 1.7v and stock cooling.

 

You guys think i could raise the voltage and be ok on stock cooling? My load temp never goes about 41

[JDizzle]

1.7v is already quite a bit for stock cooling. I had a 2800+ that maxed out at the same speeds are yours did. Are you sure that 41C is the right temp? My 2800+ usually read 10C below what it actually probably was.

[Tom Brohanks]

1.7v is already quite a bit for stock cooling. I had a 2800+ that maxed out at the same speeds are yours did. Are you sure that 41C is the right temp? My 2800+ usually read 10C below what it actually probably was.

 

Yeah it's only about 68 fahrenheit in my bedroom, so the temp is believable.

 

I'll just leave it how it is...now I have to figure out why my 3dmark03 score is only 7201...

[NEOAethyr]

I would'nt go above that fsb if I were you with that mem ratio.

I used 241Mhz fsb myself when I had 2700 ram, still if you can do that then it's probably that your ram is slightly better .

 

Anyways it'll fall off soon at that ratio though, that is it won't work.

 

The temps are ok, but those about as max as you should go, I to use the mobo's temps :, I dn have any other means right now to measure them.

 

I would run a cpu around the mid 40c's max, around 50c even the mobiles get unstable(mobo temp).

But this also seems to do alot with the cooling used.

the faster you can cool off a core, that is, the slower heat rises(spikes maybe is a good word) during stress the better.

 

Say, not a real world example, that a unlapped core and heatsink does 50c max, 2.5Ghz.

then say a lapped core and heatsink can do 2650 and go over 55c.

This is'nt a real example, but pretty much I mean that if the heatsink can cool the cpu better, then the higher in temps you can handle .

 

At least it seems that way so far anyways.

Like for instance, I could'nt even boot at 250x11 before at all, no matter the temps and voltage.

Now after a lap of the core and heatsink (not done yet though) I can boot it up at any temp(I've been using 2v because I dn what it would take on air like temps).

I mean, it allways boots now, not into windows yet, but it passes it's own mem test and the bios works like a charm never failing, I even see the progress bar for the windows loading screeen before it bsd's with a nvidia display driver error .

 

So I'd say you might beable to go a tad bit futher, not much though.

If it's stable, stres the living hell out of it by turning your heater on a bit maybe, that is get the room in temps that kinda suck, and oc the video card a a good deal and see if it holds up.

I allways do this to make sure I won't run into probs down the road given diff room temps and at other peopel's houses where it could be hotter.

 

So far myself i've gotten 250x10.5 1.95v stable during stressed use, but not completely.

It's so close though, I figuer when I finish the lap on the core and sink It'll beable to hold up in 90-100f room temps .

[nSaNe]

not sure... but that pc2700 might just be something special..

goto corsairs site... goto forums theres a tread about what chips what ram has. find out what your chips are... post back ur findings.

youll have to check the sticker on the ram for the version number..

u might be able to run 245 FSB 1:1... lots of corsair xms pc2700 is good stuff.

 

 

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XMS/CMX/TwinX-PC2700C2 v1.1 Winbond BH-6/Ch-6 (Samsung??)

 

XMS/CMX/TwinX-PC2700C2 v1.2 Winbond CH6/CH-5 (??)

 

XMS/CMX/TwinX-PC2700LL v1.1 Winbond BH-6

 

those r ur options. if its the bh-6 thats awesome.

bh-6 like voltage

[Tom Brohanks]

[nSaNe']not sure... but that pc2700 might just be something special..

goto corsairs site... goto forums theres a tread about what chips what ram has. find out what your chips are... post back ur findings.

youll have to check the sticker on the ram for the version number..

u might be able to run 245 FSB 1:1... lots of corsair xms pc2700 is good stuff.

 

 

edit *

 

XMS/CMX/TwinX-PC2700C2 v1.1 Winbond BH-6/Ch-6 (Samsung??)

 

XMS/CMX/TwinX-PC2700C2 v1.2 Winbond CH6/CH-5 (??)

 

XMS/CMX/TwinX-PC2700LL v1.1 Winbond BH-6

 

those r ur options. if its the bh-6 thats awesome.

bh-6 like voltage

 

I believe I have the CH6/CH-5

 

on one of my chips it says "XMS2702v3.1"

 

But it is PC2700C2...dounno if 1.1 or 1.2

[cdx2k1]

I got somewhere around 8500 in 3d03 using the same system specs as you Tom Brohanks cept I used Kingsotn 512MB PC3200 RAM.

[Tom Brohanks]

I got somewhere around 8500 in 3d03 using the same system specs as you Tom Brohanks cept I used Kingsotn 512MB PC3200 RAM.

 

Yeah that's what a lot of other people say...oh well.

[Tom Brohanks]

Crap, I'm still getting horrible 3mark results....GRRRRRRR