Strider_2001

Any recommended settings to start with???

SoFaKiNgHiGh

well i got mine at 2-3-3-10....but P4's are different i've heard they perfer higher FSB than tighter timings...all i can say is stick around on here till someone who knows more than me can help ya

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Strider_2001

If I get my timings off can I do any damage to my mem or will the performance just be bad???

aznchowboy650

lowering timings will not harm ram infact it might give teh ram a lil more living time hte rreasons ppl lower their timings is that they want to overclock more

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Frost

This is a very helpful guide. More of a neutral guide then a "intel specific" guide. May I suggest adding this to the amd memory forum. I know for me atleast, having an AMD I never thought twice to look through the intel forum sections. This guide is something I was missing, it helps for either brand. I just think more newer people, who don't have intel would notice this helpful guide if it is in the amd forums as well.

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AMD-rules

What would be faster??

200mhz (Divider) at 2-2-2-6
or
266mhz(divider) at 2.5-3-3-6

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Firefox22

Yo this may be a little off top but on an memory band test by SiSoftware Sandra 2005. It`s telling me that I have low band. test show 47% efficency.
Any Ideas on how to fix this.

tiwas

Ok, I've got a question here...I've found my max overclock (367 orthos stable) and now I'd like to tighten my ram timings a bit (running them 4:5). They're rated PC8500@5-5-5-15 so there should be loads of headroom (http://www.corsairmemory.com/corsair...8-8500C5D.pdf).

Now, first of all I couldn't find ""RAS activate to precharge" or "DRAM write recovery time" in the guide. Guess ASUS just uses different names for them.

So, my questions are as follows:
1. CAS latency is the most important, right? Should I lower this as much as possible until the memory tests (memtest86) starts failing and then up one notch before working on the others?
2. Will memtest fail if I go overboard, or will the computer only be more unstable?
3. Should all of these values be lowered as much as possible, or is there any that would benefit from being kept stock or even increased?

Thanks for a good thread!

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johnsrg

You know what would be really helpful.....BIOS screen shots of overclocked memory settings for different motherboards. Because each motherbord BIOS has different configurations.....This is what I want for XMAS

number of motherboards I have destroyed during overclocking experiments (while using forum instructions) = 2

Getting expensive....