4x1gb ds3 OC?

[badbadtz560]

has anyone been able to overclock 4 sticks of 1gb ram on the ds3? I'm using ocz 2.1v 4-5-4-15 ram, which overclocks pretty well with 2 sticks.. but I can't even run stock speeds in overclocking mode. does anyone know if I'm doin anythign wrong? I didn't overvolt the cpu, and did +.2V on the ddr2 back then and it ran stably with 430x7.. cant' even do 266 with 4x1gb now

 

[Zardnok]

It seems strange. I can run 4X1GB sticks in my DS-3 at 475 with 2.1volts. 2 of my 4 sticks are OCZ.

 

[mgutz]

hi, i replied to your private IM with my settings. i also had much higher overclocks with 2x1gb. i was around 3.3Ghz on 2x1GB but when I went to 4x1GB my max 3.0 Ghz. I think it's the northbridge to be honest. The northbridge and the ram are almost painful to touch. In fact, I was only able to get to 2.8Ghz until I rigged a 120mm on low RPM to blow across the ram and chipset. The chipset being farthes away from the fan is not being cooled as much as I like. I was able to squeeze out another 0.2Ghz to 3.0. Just to be sure it was the fan, i disconnected the fan and ran orthos and it chocked within 5 minutes. Putting the fan back on, memtest and orthos ran fine over 8 hours each on the same setting. I'm thinking about getting a smaller CPU HSF to replace my Ninja so I can use an after market HSF on the northbridge. by the time I do that I could be 60% of the way to buying an e6600 with a higher multiplier. choices, choices ...

 

[Salamandar]

Strange, I have 4x1GB elixer RAM which is very slow and very cheap.......overclocking is going very good, I even had to use a 4cm fan over the chipset and now I'm in the market to replace intel HSF because I want to push my E6400 to 3.0 GHz or even more.