965 x4 overclock with 1600 dd3

[jtisgeek]

Has anyone else had problems overclocking it I can not even get above stock with my ram at 1600 now if I put it down to 1333 I can go right to 3.8 stock voltage.

Just seems like the memory controller doesn't like it but I thought these newer 965 worked that out?

 

[alyarb]

is there a particular reason you need your RAM at 1600? because there is no performance difference between 1333 and 1600.

 

[lopri]

I assume your overclocking is done by multipliers? How many sticks are you using? Try giving more voltages to CPU-NB?

 

[jtisgeek]

is there a particular reason you need your RAM at 1600? because there is no performance difference between 1333 and 1600.

Yeah it doesn't matter I was just curious. Yes there is a performance difference but it's not a big deal.

 

[jtisgeek]

I assume your overclocking is done by multipliers? How many sticks are you using? Try giving more voltages to CPU-NB?

Tried giving it a little didn't make a difference. I have tried different numbers of sticks didn't help .

 

[alyarb]

I would leave it at 1333. Tom's did a test on memory scaling with phenom ii. The DDR3-1600 config won the synth tests, but 1066 and 1333 came out ahead in the real-world apps. Unfortunately all of the systems were within 0.5% of each other.

 

[jtisgeek]

I would leave it at 1333. Tom's did a test on memory scaling with phenom ii. The DDR3-1600 config won the synth tests, but 1066 and 1333 came out ahead in the real-world apps. Unfortunately all of the systems were within 0.5% of each other.

Yeah I read it a couple games show like 4 percent gains over 1066 but yeah am not worried about it I just wanted to see if other people were having this problem.

 

[jtisgeek]

Am surprised no amd guys helped me with this. Comes to find out it had more to do with cool and quiet sucking , that was causing the problem.

Nice to know that if you have it turned off in the bios overdrive can still turn it on.

 

[Rifter]

Yeah cool and quiet will screw your OC, sorry i didnt see this sooner and mention it. My 940BE would only do 3.3Ghz with C&Q, will hit 3.8 without it, takes some voltage though