naokiura Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Haven't been here for a while but for the past two weeks been running my PC with 4 sticks of 8500C5D with no problems at 1066 Mhz. CPU at 3.33Ghz with two 8800 GTX - SLI. I just decided to play around again with the over-clocking and I got a surprise. I have no idea why it is working. Ran memtest with 48 passes and no errors. Also, on 3d Mark06 I scored 15398 which is about the same with only two sticks of Ram. I've attached a text file to show some readings, I hope, first time. I've been playing BF2 with no problems, I think I move a little faster in the game now. In Crysis, the game may crash once a night when I play. Before it was crashing more often, it was because I was running my CPU at 3.3 Ghz. When I lowered it to 2.9 Ghz the game didn't crash, as many have suggested to lower the CPU speed if over-clocked. I'm leaving it at 3.3Ghz because I don't want to screw up a good thing. Hope I haven't jinxed myself. Long story but basically gave my wife 2 Gb of memory and 1 - 8800 GTX till I could afford to buy her those parts for her new PC. Had trouble with her system and was swapping parts back and forth to find trouble. The only thing that I know is different is that originally I had Ver 2.1 in the first dual channel and the ver. 1.2 in second dual channels. After trouble shooting I had ver. 2.2 in first dual channels and the older version in the second dual channels. Otherwise everything else is the same, one other thing is that I have her EIDE hard drive in my computer for now till hers comes back from ASUS repair. Anyone have any thoughts as to why the memory is runing at there rated speed with 4 sticks? I'm really curious as to why it is working when it's not suppose too.Test 1-30-08.doc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtreeme Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 just luck really, you got a luck combo that worked at higher speed. Its really just that. Just like getting a 2ghz cpu that hits over 3ghz heh. Somewhere between the mobo and ram combo you got lucky heh.:): Now if they were higher density sticks like 2gb your chances would be far less of getting that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekT Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Also keep in mind that DRAM declination can be cumulative and degenerate over time. How many times have we heard about the person who has written that they ran four gigs at full speed for six months, one year and now it is dead? Good luck, you may be one of the lucky ones that never has problems. You are already in the minority. Hopefully you are in the even smaller minority that does not end up with issues in the longer term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naokiura Posted February 9, 2008 Author Share Posted February 9, 2008 Guess I'll be putting the speed back to 800 Mhz, even though I got a lucky break on the speed. Don't want to keep buying memory modules for reasons that could have been avoided. thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekT Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 Guess I'll be putting the speed back to 800 Mhz, even though I got a lucky break on the speed. Don't want to keep buying memory modules for reasons that could have been avoided. thanks again It's always gratifying to hear someone take the advice. For the differential between the speed it's just not worth it. Well done! ;): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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