what am i doing wrong?

[usman.zx10]

So ive got a q6600 on my gigabyte GA-X48-DS4 and ive got it clocked at 3.2 right now and i seem to have hit a wall. I have learned that my OCZ platinum DDR6400 mem OCs for poop. here is a screen shot. tell me what I should do..

btw, I am on air w/ a zalman CNPS9700LED with an Antec 900 case so i have lots of airflow to say the least. and for the video dept i got 2 4850 in CF

 

[Diablo]

Try raising your V core, you can easily go up to 1.35 on air, probably more without too many issues.

 

[usman.zx10]

i bumped it to 1.35 and its good, now the block i feel i have hit is the memory i ran prime95 for an hour and no errors on any cores. its just that my memory cant take it..

any suggestions on how much "looser" i should time it? i have it 5-5-5-15 right now.

 

[Rastalovich]

On ur CPUz, there is a tab at the top labelled SPD, post a nice screen shot of that

(dont need full screen, just the window)

 

[Diablo]

Try unlinking your memory from the fsb, and you could probably juice the processor more. (check temperatures, but that 9700 is good). People can quite easily hit 3.5. I would personally buy some 1066 memory as you only have 2 gigs it will be cheap. However just ocing, it shouldn't be too difficult to get 1000.

Try getting your cpu high and stable before worrying about the memory.

5-5-5-15 is pretty loose for 800 performance ram, you could probably stick with that to 1000.

 

[usman.zx10]

On ur CPUz, there is a tab at the top labelled SPD, post a nice screen shot of that

(dont need full screen, just the window)

will do, im at work right now but ill do that as soon as i get home.

 

[usman.zx10]

Try unlinking your memory from the fsb, and you could probably juice the processor more. (check temperatures, but that 9700 is good). People can quite easily hit 3.5. I would personally buy some 1066 memory as you only have 2 gigs it will be cheap. However just ocing, it shouldn't be too difficult to get 1000.

Try getting your cpu high and stable before worrying about the memory.

5-5-5-15 is pretty loose for 800 performance ram, you could probably stick with that to 1000.

i will try that also thanks!

 

[usman.zx10]

here is the SPD tab

 

[°TheMadDutchDude°]

Diablo, as far as I know only nVidia motherboards allow you to unlink the FSBRAM.

Another thing, what are you on about with 1.35v on air you should be fine? A Q6600 can take up to 1.45v on air and run cool and is perfect for 24/7 usage

 

[usman.zx10]

yeah looks like im gonna have to upgrade my memory so i can hit a higher clock speed. i want to be at 3.5 on air. i can do it.. the temps say i got lots of room. under full load i was at 45C.

 

[nepas]

thats the same memory i had and i got mine to 950 stable so it will clock.what voltage is your mem set at?

@maddutchdude: I wouldnt want to put a 65nm quad at 1.45 on air,at least not for 24/7 unless i had some mega airflow(like a a/c system ducted to cpu)

 

[usman.zx10]

thats the same memory i had and i got mine to 950 stable so it will clock.what voltage is your mem set at?

@maddutchdude: I wouldnt want to put a 65nm quad at 1.45 on air,at least not for 24/7 unless i had some mega airflow(like a a/c system ducted to cpu)

i just gave it a .05 bump in voltage from the BIOS. what are you running at? voltage and timings. I would to try your memory settings.

 

[nepas]

sorry I am not on that memory anymore mate,iirc i just used the standard timings and put up the mem voltage to 1.975v ish

 

[usman.zx10]

hey i can work with that info. ill bump the voltage and try running prim95

 

[nepas]

good luck mate

 

[usman.zx10]

well, i am rocking full rock stable at 3.6 on air!! the core voltage im a little iffy about but it needs this much for the stability i ran prime95 for ten minutes and maxed out all cores and the hottest it got was 68C I think i can do this 24/7 but i dont know if i should stress test for that long lol.

as for the memory I had to match it at the 800mhz other wise it wont boot into windows. I tried the OCed memory to boot and i gradually kept upping the voltage to boot into windows at 840mhz oc, i have it +.45v and still was unable to boot into windows.

but check this pic tho. I am pleased. Should I back it down for 24/7 runtime?

 

[nepas]

nice going !! but that vcore is not good for 24/7 on air,are you sure there is no way you can rduce that?whats the voltages for everything else?

 

[usman.zx10]

nice going !! but that vcore is not good for 24/7 on air,are you sure there is no way you can rduce that?whats the voltages for everything else?

everything else is normal voltage. my memory clocked at full 1:1 so it went no prob.

i have clocked it down to 3.5 now and my voltage is at 1.45 in windows. its 1.48 in the bios. but it failed on prime95 on core#1. So i guess im gonna have to give either more voltage or drop the clock back more.. but id really like it 3.6 which i know now it can do..

 

[usman.zx10]

well i was successful with prime95 max temp was 59 on all cores.

3.4ghz (380x9) @ 1.45v

it down clocked my memory to 760mhz but thats negligable. what do you think?

i dont think its bad for being on air. i was running stable at 3.6 on air too!!! but the vcore was too high it was at like 1.55

 

[nepas]

looking good.Is there any sort of fine tuning you can do with the vcore?the reaso i ask is that I have a special add with my bios which will give me a fine control over the vcore,if you have something like that it may help lower your vcore even more