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nightlith
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 Posted: Sun, 20th Sep 2009 22:20 Post subject: Question about ram speed |
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I've got one o' dem fancy shmancy AM3 CPUs (X2 240) on an crApSUS uATX M3A78 board (780G chippies). Now, I only bought this board because I'm a poor fag and it said 'lulz you can run dis 'ere shits at 1066MHZ!!' So i've got 4gigs of 1066 (2 sticks, dual channel).
What a crock of shit that was. Yah, I can, except going by what OCZ said, I had to tweak the shit out of the timings in my bios and volt up the ram to 2.1v. Of course, the bios has that voltage in RED as opposed to the nice pleasant green the stock voltage is, which makes me nervous as all hell.
ANYWAY. At stock, the ram runs at 800mhz flawlessly. After tweaks and turning off ganged mode (wut?) I can get the clocks to 1066, but I suffer crashes in long game sessions, usually as the result of page faults and memory access errors. After doing the clock changes, I ran memtest and it came back clean, so I don't think the ram is faulty. Honestly I just don't think 1066 is stable period, at least on this crapsus.
Is stability worth 800mhz? Or should I just keep it at 1066? This is also on an eval version of windows 7, so the memory faults could theoretically also be the OS itself...
i can has computar?!
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| Posted: Sun, 20th Sep 2009 22:46 Post subject: |
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Keep them at stock for a few days to see if that's the problem. Anyway, the speed of the ram doesn't make a huge impoct on framerates usually, do a few benchmarks on batman or some other game with a benchmark option. (no synthetic tests !)
Like I said, keep them at stock timings and voltage for a while.
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