Greetings everyone, I've just joined Anand's forums 
I'm having a little oddity about my 4 sticks of Ballistix Tracers PC8500 but not that I'm complaining about it. I'll just start off a breakdown of my system, kinda copy-pasted this from my sig:
Mobo: ASUS Rampage Formula
CPU: Q6600 B3 @ 333x9=3GHz 1.325V (1.288V VDroop'd)
RAM: 4x1GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer 8500 @ 1066MHz 5, 5, 5, 15, 2T 1.9V
GPU: Leadtek 9800GTX @ 780/2300
It seems that whenever I set DRAM voltage at 2.0V, system becomes unstable at heavy gaming on UT3 or 3DMark06 benchmarking and at 2.1+V, desktop would started corrupting, flickering, gpu driver failing after 1 minute getting on to the desktop. It was as if I've fried a component somewhere.
After some testing... turned out setting DRAM voltage at 1.9V solved it. System is rock stable now, tested it with 2xOrthos for an hour, crunching SETI@Home for 24 hours, 3DMark06, heavy UT3, all that without restarting the PC even once.
I didn't test Orthos for very long because CPU temp was reaching 75oC. Idle is like 52oC. Eventhough I use a Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme, Arctic Silver 5 with the line method, excellent air intake and exhaust. Just one issue.... my computer room is like 32oC / 90oF most of the times. Hence I have no intention on overclocking the CPU further that would force me to increase the VCore.
Rampage Formula mobo, all other voltages (CPU PLL, NB, FSB, SB, & SB 1.5V) have been set on manual to its minimum voltage. If I set them on Auto, only the NB and FSB (I think) that would set themselves a bit higher than their minimum, like they're 1.2V-ish at minimum, on Auto they'd be running at 1.33V. Even having them on Auto still caused the desktop corruption. Manually setting those two at 1.33V resulted the same corruption.
So, as long as DRAM is at 1.9V (and VCore at 1.325V BIOS for 3GHz), system is happy eventhough the other 5 voltages are set to its minimum. It's nice and cooler for the RAM at 1.9V, but it's bugging me why it's actually stable at such low voltage. Anyone care to explain? Maybe there's an issue I'm not aware of, been searching on google and other forums, no one has experienced such issue.
Thanks
I'm having a little oddity about my 4 sticks of Ballistix Tracers PC8500 but not that I'm complaining about it. I'll just start off a breakdown of my system, kinda copy-pasted this from my sig:
Mobo: ASUS Rampage Formula
CPU: Q6600 B3 @ 333x9=3GHz 1.325V (1.288V VDroop'd)
RAM: 4x1GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer 8500 @ 1066MHz 5, 5, 5, 15, 2T 1.9V
GPU: Leadtek 9800GTX @ 780/2300
It seems that whenever I set DRAM voltage at 2.0V, system becomes unstable at heavy gaming on UT3 or 3DMark06 benchmarking and at 2.1+V, desktop would started corrupting, flickering, gpu driver failing after 1 minute getting on to the desktop. It was as if I've fried a component somewhere.
After some testing... turned out setting DRAM voltage at 1.9V solved it. System is rock stable now, tested it with 2xOrthos for an hour, crunching SETI@Home for 24 hours, 3DMark06, heavy UT3, all that without restarting the PC even once.
I didn't test Orthos for very long because CPU temp was reaching 75oC. Idle is like 52oC. Eventhough I use a Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme, Arctic Silver 5 with the line method, excellent air intake and exhaust. Just one issue.... my computer room is like 32oC / 90oF most of the times. Hence I have no intention on overclocking the CPU further that would force me to increase the VCore.
Rampage Formula mobo, all other voltages (CPU PLL, NB, FSB, SB, & SB 1.5V) have been set on manual to its minimum voltage. If I set them on Auto, only the NB and FSB (I think) that would set themselves a bit higher than their minimum, like they're 1.2V-ish at minimum, on Auto they'd be running at 1.33V. Even having them on Auto still caused the desktop corruption. Manually setting those two at 1.33V resulted the same corruption.
So, as long as DRAM is at 1.9V (and VCore at 1.325V BIOS for 3GHz), system is happy eventhough the other 5 voltages are set to its minimum. It's nice and cooler for the RAM at 1.9V, but it's bugging me why it's actually stable at such low voltage. Anyone care to explain? Maybe there's an issue I'm not aware of, been searching on google and other forums, no one has experienced such issue.
Thanks
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