Dual Channel = Lower overclocking potential? [max cpu] [rough idea]
Q: Well Im not happen overclocking or testing, but I thought Id post and get a rough idea of what would be an ideal situation, given my current situation.
So far away, I have the mem divider at 1 : 2, so it should not be a problem. I try to find my max CPU resources and it appears that if I ram in dual channel (actually, two if I stick term, dual channel or not) my max HTT / FSB is 250. If I put my max one is about 292. Oh and as two sticks, that I see the windows loading splash screen, but before I can actually get into Windows, the reboots.
My current system in my sig, just so you do not look, I m carrying the 3000 + Venice, so the speeds are: 977,503,977,503,250 x 9 x 9 = 2250 = 2628 ghz
292 ghz
In case you were wondering, I lost my vdimm 2.80.
So tension rises, Im not sure how much of a difference, for games , the extra 400 MHz or so will make. Any thoughts? Opinions? Ideas?
Thanks,
Mo
Best Answer: about over clocking it shortens the life of components its like if your car is supposed to run at 55 mph and you push it up to 70mph the car wont last as long just like your computer it will run faster mind you but it also will burn up quicker
Re:I tried swapping the sticks with each other and the both run fine individually. Mind you this is at 290 HTT with a 2:1 divider, so it is really a bit less than 150 so they really aren't running at 250.
Mo
Re:thats because one of your sticks goes up to 250 and the other goes higher, so its limited to 250.
Re:Try each stick on its own and run Memtest on it at stock speeds, then try each in different slots.
It could be there's some kind of issue with a RAM slot or a stick of RAM, although if you're using a divider it seems odd that might be the issue. :confused:
Re:Well, it's not even the whole 'dual channel' issue, the problem occurs when I run both sticks, regardless of single or dual channel.
I tried loosening timings, but I don't think that made a difference because I'm running the divider at 1/2 anyways, so I don't think the ram is 'stressed' out or anything like that. I tried bumping up the ram to 2.9, but i didn't feel comfortable going any higher because I didn't think id be able to run it at > 2.9 for an extended period of time anyways. I tried setting it to run at 2T, but that didn't really help either.
LDT voltage is 1.4
Cpu vid: 1.5
above 110%
Mem voltage: 2.8
Chipset voltage: 1.6
It seems that the ram isn't really getting enough power. Im not really sure what else to try? Suggestions?
Mo
Re:2.250GHz seems horribly low for a Venice overcloc, are you sure there's not some other kind of issue?
2.6GHz seems to be almost the monimum overclock for most Venice chips (many hit 2.7~2.8GHz) so getting 2.25 seems like a different issue to running dual channel. Maybe there's an issue with a stick of RAM you have?
Re:I think i read it somewhere, but I might as well confirm. The maximum voltages for OCZ Premier series ram is about about 2.9 right? Don't really want to go any higher?
Mo
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