are these good timings

badaphooko

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kinda new to overclocking .. can anybody tell me if these are good memory timings 2-2-2-7? i really dont know. can they be better? and why wont my motherboard go past 200mhz it lets you go up to 250 mhz but when i raise it, it goes right back to 200 mhz
 

Soulkeeper

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a lot of boards/memory have trouble getting 200 fsb stable
2-2-2-7 timings are pretty fast
i have found 2-2-2-6 to be the fastest for most nforce2 board
but if you want over 200 you will probably have to losen your mem timings and up voltages on the nforce2 and memory
 

adams828

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those are about as fast as you get get, only things better would be 2-2-2-6 or 2-2-2-5.. you might just have to mess around with different fsb and timings and run some benchmarks to see what works better. 3-3-3-7 may end up giving you higher bandwidth @ 250fsb than 2-2-2-7 @ 200 fsb on your system, you never know
 

JBT

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Many Nforce2 boards actually 2, 2, 2, 11 are the fastest timmings and is less stressful than the others stated Try it and see how it goes.
 

Big Lar

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Pretty good timings/ tho maybe the ram will do better, I have mine at 2225/8 on a p4p800
 

hytek369

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i got my mushkin pc3500 level 2 running at 2-2-2-4 at 200fsb just like in that anandtech review.

Edit: link
 

Soulkeeper

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yeah i think the 512mb sticks have a greater chance of not hitting high speeds, especially when you got two of them
most all the big overclocks are done with smaller chips
kinda like a trade off cause the mem is only as fast as it's slowest transistor