KX7-333 and RAM Settings

[Player0]

Ive been doing a lot of ram testing with RamTest 2.9 lately, and I discovered something about this setting Opp told me to use (840ops) for DCLK Delay. Set to anything BUT Auto seems to create more instability for me at any speed.

Say i get 2-3 errors in RamTest #1 with Auto...if I set it to 840ops delay, Ill get more than twice that number of errors at high FSB.

Im not sure this is a setting you want to change if you want the best stability. DQ timings also create more instability if i try to set them manually.

Setting MD Drive, and DIMM1&2 and 3&4 drives to HIGH improves my stability from their Auto settings.

This is all over 200mhz FSB with 2x256 dimms in 1 and 3.

Corsair DIMMs watercooled seem to operate best at about 3.07 - 3.15v. Still testing to find the most stable voltage.

[Player0]

Thank you Mike for pointing me to Ram tester!

I am now 100% stable at 200mhz C2 2-5-2 4way 2T. Moving from 2-5-3 to 2-5-2 gives me more than 100MBs increase in RAM Bandwidth at 1600mhz cpu (whch im not sure influences that reading or not).

MemTest reads me at 978MB/s here. I can break the 1GB/s mark easy by going to 205mhz or so im sure. You bet your bottom dollar ill be doing that.

I was able to get all 4 waterram blocks to fit in slots 1 and 3 after all, with a little adjustment.

Is vMem modding worth it...you better beleive it.

Is watercooling ram worth it....you better beleive it! 130MB/s higher bandwidth cause of extra cooling.

And i have the ram at 3.15v which is the sweet spot.

I cant wait to see what this translates in terms of sandra scores! Next I just have to figgure out how to stop AGP tearing over 207.

[Player0]

The only problem with 3.15vCore is that it stops my video card from working! Windows crashes cause of the high AGP voltage.

Darn.

[NorthernYankee]

Originally posted by Player0
The only problem with 3.15vCore is that it stops my video card from working! Windows crashes cause of the high AGP voltage.

Darn.

I hope you mean VMem

--NY

[Player0]

Oops..yes...vmem.

[speculative]

Hmm... that gave me an idea...

Are there any voltage mods to bring certain voltages down instead of up? For example, modding the AGP voltage so that you can raise the 3.3v line really high w/out the AGP going up... (I know nothing about vmods. :) )

-spec

P.S. - noticed a few mobo's offer the ability to adjust the AGP voltage as well, might this feature be helpful?