Hi everybody, I managed to push my ram to the max and this is what i get. plz comment.....

first of all, my specs:
Sansun 500w Psu
Opty 165 @ 1.53v @2808Mhz @312HTT
Thermalright SI-120 @ 120mm fan
OCZ Gold PC4000 (DDR500) UCCC @DDR 560 @ 3-7-7-12 @ 9/10 @ 2.95v
Passive cooling for the ram.
DFI NF4 Lanparty Ultra-D @ 704 BTA bios.
80GB and 250GB WD sata II hdd, 200GB pata hdd
dvd rom, cd burner (dvd burner power supply plugged off to save power)
normal graphic card, audigy 4 sound card

Main use: multimedia content creation (wavelab and pinnacle studio)

What I get:

MEMTEST V1.6 ---> 2048 errors on test 5 first round.
Fail super pi 1M but pass 512k at 13 secs.
General use: very stable and fast. Do not crash.
Full load add 10 Celcius to CPU temp.


Plz advise Proc and ram and PSU from Dinster.

This post has been edited by joylay83: Apr 7 2006, 03:33 AM

where do you think i should stop?? i can get 265Mhz memtest 0 errors 32m super pi stable.

bound to get errors when reach 270. but i dunno how to 'tweak away those errors'. UCCC supposed to be able to reach 285..... but not all the time lah....

my main fear now is not that the system will crash, but i fear data corruption.....

This post has been edited by joylay83: Apr 7 2006, 03:39 AM

@ PC crazy
thanks for ur encouragement... but i agree that this timing is thumbs down... in windows its kinda fastm but in memtest it is snail speed. my ram is default 3-4-4-8.

@ KidsCode
no my problem is opposite. my proc can go very high , not maxed yet. my ram is causing problems.

@ e-jump
THANK YOU!!!!!!!

no its ddr1 if not i wouldn't have started this thread since ddr2 is meant to do high latency

ya the higher htt i go, my ram loose bandwidth. at 265 i can get 7000mb/s. i juz sold 1 set of my old skool Bh-5 coz dun like to pump voltage

wat say you if i put like 320HTT with divider 5/6?? that'll leave my ram at 266Mhz. 5/6 can run well on my mobo but bandwidth and performance i am not sure...

i need 2gb of ram. if not i would have gone tccd

ya.. uccc should be able to do about 280. i think my fine tunings are not right. will meddle with it asap with the link above

Added one xtra cap ayam 400w PSU to power all the other things. my 500w PSU now only power mobo, proc, ram, gc, pci card, and 2 sata HDD.

Hopefully get better power in that case. last time kenot over 2.8 coz of PSU limitation. 2nd attempt clocking 2molo nite

hmm... my cpu seems to hit a wall at 218HTT which is around 2.83Ghz coz it requires more than 1.60v to achieve more. temp full load is around 37C without air con. (add 10C to smart guardian reading while idle).

anyways, i decided to settle with 2.6Ghz 9/10. memtest and super pi 32m stable. i loss cpu bandwidth though.... conclusion? ram is limiting me again however, after tweaking windows, it seems to compensate a bit for the speed loss.


note: pic shows superpi 1M.

This post has been edited by joylay83: Apr 17 2006, 01:03 AM

wat's DS and DDS?? dun find it in my dfi board also??? :S

This post has been edited by joylay83: Apr 18 2006, 01:42 PM

@jarofclay
afaik 3800 need to mod the pod on the motherboard then oni can clock higher. i think babyelf has a thread on that. i dun dare to mod it..

@e-jump
Oh... icic.. i tried those. level 1 or level 8 also same... strong or weak drive also level 3 or level 1.... no matter what i do i kenot reach 270Mhz 3-4-4-8 3-5-5-8 can....

@Darkmage12
thanks.

btw, any 1 dare to pump more than 1.6v into a dually??

This post has been edited by joylay83: Apr 18 2006, 01:36 PM

what to do..... haih maybe wait till warranty over then try pod mod then can run 7/10 divider or maybe ram can naik a bit (susally dun happen). or change to crossfire and run 4x1gb

but now its really rock stable man...... can do anything and its real fast. oni thing is that i loose cpu bandwidth la....

the funny thing is that e.g. steinberg wavelab: whether my clock is 1.8, 2.4, 2.6, 2.8Ghz, it still uses 50% of my proc speed (probably a software limitation). hence, clocking the cpu higher actually increases its speed. from 1.8 to 2.6, my job time of a rendering change from 5 mins to 2 mins.

any1 dare to pump more than 1.6v into this proc? opty 165? what is the max that i can pump?????

ya... i very scared render half way then BSOD....

i think i will settle with HTT297@2.67Ghz@1.5v DDR534@3-4-3-8 superPI 32M stable...

see if i can do more with the coming Gskill or not.

one strange thing is.... after i OC from 1.8 to 2.6, pinnacle CPU usage drop from 50% to 20%. this change does not happen when i migrate from Athlon XP to Opteron. Maybe its due to software limitation... i am no programmer so can't do anything bout it

can you eleborate?? burning as in???

in overclocking, burning-in means you run stressful program e.g. sp2004 or prime95 to see if your system is stable or not.

or it can also mean burning a cd

but mine is pc4000 woh.. not pc 3200...

edit.. juz noticed that your ram is also pc4000. maybe your cooling not enough.... or voltage not enough. i running mine at 2.8v

omg.. i am ordering another set of gskill ram for my the other rig.. i tot gskill supposed to go quite high woh...

This post has been edited by joylay83: May 21 2006, 07:56 PM

it is a possible cause. but i touched the ram heatsink it is really cool. it has the processor fan blowing on it. now my question is, is the contact between the heatsink and the ram chips good? and if i open take out the heatsink means warranty void

ichiban might be having a overheating problem.....

This post has been edited by joylay83: May 23 2006, 11:59 PM