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As most of you already know I built a budget Sempron rig and \"settled\" with just Corsair VS. I bought them and it turned out that I was lucky enough to get some with UCCC chips.
I am not done messing with this RAM, but since UCCC typically does best @ 3-4-4-8 w/ 2.7v-2.8v I thought I would try that. So here is my result:
260MHz @ 3-4-4-8 w/ 2.7v
The tightest timings I could get at DDR400 was 2.5-3-3. At those timings it could do 240MHz w/ 2.6v and 256MHz w/ 2.7v. I'll probably run it around there.
Last edited by KoolDrew on Tue Feb 14, 2006 4:34 pm; edited 1 time in total
The 2GB G.Skill HZ's? Those are also UCCC and you should expect similair results, most likely better then mine. I am really suprised Corsair would put UCCC ships in their Value RAM. If you're lucky enough to get them that's only $140 for 2GB that can overclock pretty well.
I could probably push this a little farther too. I tried 265MHz @ 3-4-4-8 w/ 2.8v, but it failed Memtest86+ test #5 after a few passes. With a little tweaking I may be able to get it stable. I could try running 2T which would probably give me a bit more room. I didn't try 2.9v either, but I doubt it will help any. I don't think I'm going to bother trying to make it higher though. Most likely I will be running it lower then the max I found anyway in favor of a higher CPU clock.
Assuming my CPU will do 2.4GHz (which seems like the average) I would run a 300 HTT with a 5:6 divider giving me 240MHz which it can do w/ 2.6v @ 2.5-3-3-8. It probably won't be Windows stable at those settings though. I ussually find what is stable in Windows is a few MHz lower then what Memtest says is stable. So I'll just run that w/ 2.7v.
Last edited by KoolDrew on Tue Feb 14, 2006 7:20 pm; edited 1 time in total