hometech99 Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 Running 2 pair (2GB) on asus P5wd2 premium. Intel 840 EE at 3.7GHz Settings: FSB 250 DDR2 1000 Peformance Standard video 33.3 Memory voltage 2.15 cpu multiplier 15. memory 5-4-4-11-5 everything else is Auto (including cpu voltage) I fail memtest, but not microsoft's memory tester. I run 4 itertions of GO-Sp2004 (prime95) and system fails after maybe 10 minutes. on reboot, error reporter to Microsoft says its a RAM problem. from the asus link, i see they have voltages on other parts of the motherboard cranked up to full (like termination, fsb, etc). im reluctant to do that, as this is my second board. the first board was failing also, and then started randomly loosing the ITE harddrive controller (so, was i frying motherboard modules cranking up those other voltages to corsair's testing parameters?) i just inched the memory voltage to 2.2, leaving evrything else the same. but, to get these speeds- is upping the other motherboard voltages as Corsair does with testing these DDR2 sticks required to get the 5-4-4 at ddr2-1000? or, do i have underspec ram? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 24, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 24, 2005 Maybe, but I would try and lower your CPU multiplier and see if the results change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hometech99 Posted October 24, 2005 Author Share Posted October 24, 2005 so, are you saying that just making the cpu speed 3.5GHZ instaed of 3.7 GHz will make the ram work, and that we DONT need those high motherboard voltages quoted in the testing paramters? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 24, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 24, 2005 No, that is not what I said at all! How did you get that? You would need to use the settings we used to test the modules or they may not run properly. That is whay we published them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hometech99 Posted October 24, 2005 Author Share Posted October 24, 2005 I got that because my original question asked if it was necessary to crank up those voltages to maximum (which I left at "Auto") and you replied only to lower the multiplier . Raising the terminator, FSB voltages to maximum causes the Bios to show those values in red, and I strangely had the hard drive and floppy drive controller on the board fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 25, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 25, 2005 The memory voltage is not connected with the HDD or floppy controller so they should have nothing to do with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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