go4life

nice kim! testing my E8500 @ 4ghz now, but I will try to reach 4.5ghz later

Ha en fin dag

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Captain Skyhawk

What is the FSB-hole? I'm not sure what you mean.

Yea I was thinking the same thing. I tried out some cheap memory that got pretty good reviews on newegg, but maybe I should have gone with a more trusted brand. I don't know much about overclocking memory, is there anyway I can speed it up some? Thanks in advance.

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go4life

A fsb hole is on most motherboards, it is just unstable at some fsb frequencies, lets say its not stable at 280fsb, but it can be stable at 320fsb!
Its weird, but sometimes its like that.

About you ram, the A-data is no performance king. And newegg reviews aint any good.. So I would try to find some memory that is 800mhz on 4-4-4-12 or less. Since the A-data`s is a BAD overclocker! So keep them at stock

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kimosabi

The P5N-D has a known hole between 1400mHz and 1500mHz. Any FSB settings in between there and it won`t be stable. I just started at 1501mHz and worked my way up from there. Had to try some settings in the hole first though and yep, it`s true.
And the board has been great ever since. Just been upping FSB first and voltages when it became unstable. Also switched to Corsair Dominator 1066mHz from Corsair 800mHz XMS2 and it did some good things. But I`m at the RAMspeed limit now, i think.

Captain Skyhawk

Hmm, I never knew that about the FSB hole. I'm gonna experiment getting my cpu up in the 3.4-3.6 range. And these sticks got 5 eggs with 83% on newegg, but I'll look into some better ram. Any suggestions?

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go4life

@ kim, the fsb holes vary from motherboard to motherboard, its not always the same on all, even if they are the same type

@ captain, I used some Corsair XMS2 800mhz 4-4-4-12 on the P5N-D, worked great! Got them stable at 1000mhz 5-5-5-15

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kimosabi

Well, i got a tip from someone in here that this board had a hole between 1400-1500mHz. It was the same on mine. So that makes my tip semi-correct doesnt it? But thanks for another good tip, Christian.

@Captain Skyhawk: Get some Corsair Dominator PC28500 2x2GB and take them as close to your boards RAMspeed limit as possible. The P5N-D supports only up to PC26400(800mHz) but I`m running 1019mHz now and they run great! They sucked at 800mHz though. And costs more than the xms2`s.

go4life

hehe No problem Kim

anyways, its really no point to buy pc8500 is it? The XMS2 works just as great, costs less and get to 1000mhz fine

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kimosabi

Yeah, they cost more and i guess theyre not really needed for this mobo, but my xms2`s didnt make it to more than 890mHz or so. Maybe i got a couple of bad sticks, but i got the Dominator`s cuz they look killer with the fans and for my mobo upgrade later on.
But now that i`ve got my mobo to such speeds stable and working fine i guess i dont need upgrading for a while.

You got any tip for good hardware stores BTW, Christian? I`m mostly buing from Komplett or Multicom but i think theyre a bit expensive??

go4life

Then you where un-lucky! Me and my friend got both are XMS2 up to 1000mhz without any problems at all!

Well I buy from komplett, netshop, multicom, microplex. Havent tried amentio yet since they dont have postoppkrav! If you think komplett is expensive try to shop at netshop instead, since they usually have lower prices and good service to

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