Best RAM / FSB speeds

[KyleY]

For an Athlon 64 3500+ Venice on an A8N-SLI Premium with G.Skill 2GBZX or 2GBHZ RAM, should I aim for:
240x10 running RAM 1:1 at 3-3-3-8-1T
220x11 running RAM 1:1 at 2.5-3-3-7-1T
240x10 running RAM async at 200 MHz, 2-3-2-5-1T

...or something else? I just want a modest overclock b/c I don't want a lot of stress on / heat in my system. Thanks in advance,
--Kyle

 

[Tweakin]

I would recommend that you always:

1) run the chip at the highest FSB you can, even if it means dropping the multi.
2) bring up the memory to as high a speed as can be had to keep stability, dividers are
fine with the AMD controller.

In your case, you seem to be staying around 2.4Ghz, so I would drop the memory divider to 133, set the HTT to 3 or 600, drop the cpu multi to 8 and slowelyrun the fsb up to 300. This will keep you at 2.4 Ghz yet take advantage of the available memory throughput available from AMD. This would also alow you to run your memory at the fastest timings, which appear to be 2-3-2-5 1T.

That's what I would do...

 

[keldog7]

Really specific question - I doubt anyone will be able to answer it without benchmarking it under your exact conditions though. Have you tried SiSoft to check the numbers yourself?
-A

 

[KyleY]

Well, this is actually for a new PC - don't even have the parts ordered yet. So no, I haven't done any testing yet...

Tweakin, thanks for your suggestions. Can anyone else confirm that this would be the best strategy? I don't think I want to push for 300 FSB - that's too much stress on the chipset & mobo (IMO). I want to try to keep the chipset, etc. relatively cool & stable.

Doesn't running the FSB at 300 also put excess stress on the CPU? Obviously, I'm fine with doing this to a degree b/c I'm overclocking, but I don't want to push too far. I'm only looking to push my 3500+ Venice (2.2 GHz default) to 2.4 or max 2.6 GHz... Thanks,
--Kyle