DS3 wont hold overclock with 4gigs of ram...

[TurnX]

Just put another 2gb of ram in my pc to bring it up to 4gb, however the board doesnt seem to want to hold any overclock. I had it running with a 460mhz FSB at 3.22ghz on 2gb, but as soon as I take it above 266mhz FSB with 4gb it will run for a while and then blue screen. I have heard of people have problems when going to 4gb of ram so I was curious if there is anything I can do to get my OC back. thanks

Specs:
Windows Vista Ultimate x64
Intel C2D E6300
Gigabyte 965P-DS3
4gb G.Skill PC6400
MSI Nvidia 8800 GTS 640mb

 

[Lonyo]

Go down to 3GB RAM?

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: TurnX
Just put another 2gb of ram in my pc to bring it up to 4gb, however the board doesnt seem to want to hold any overclock. I had it running with a 460mhz FSB at 3.22ghz on 2gb, but as soon as I take it above 266mhz FSB with 4gb it will run for a while and then blue screen. I have heard of people have problems when going to 4gb of ram so I was curious if there is anything I can do to get my OC back. thanks

Specs:
Windows Vista Ultimate x64
Intel C2D E6300
Gigabyte 965P-DS3
4gb G.Skill PC6400
MSI Nvidia 8800 GTS 640mb

I seem to recall in the MB manual some limits on RAM speed with all 4 slots filled. Have you studied your manual on this issue?

 

[TurnX]

unfortunately the manual is back at home. I'll check out Gigabyte's website and see if I can turn up anything. thanks for the info

 

[mgutz]

I run DS3 rev 3.3 F10 with 4x1GB Corsair XMS 2 no problem now. I was at 450 FSB but went down to 400 to run my fans at lower speed for quieter/cooler computing. I'm using default CPU voltage and the recommended 1.9v for memory. I was having problems booting too but it turns out it's a problem with this board and it may not be your memory at all. I had to clear the CMOS serveral times, overclock to the same settings and it magically worked.

 

[dclive]

The manual notes that certain memory types and certain sizes have issues, not all.

 

[TurnX]

Well after playing with the settings for a while I was able to get it to run stable at 400 FSB, but as soon as I take it any higher it starts to have problems. I am going to update the bios later today to F10 and see if that helps at all, running F7 right now. I'll update here once I try it out.

 

[3LEMENT0]

good luck, I'm planning to upgrade to 4Gig in the future too

 

[amenx]

I moved to 4gb recently with my DS3 and found no trouble whatsoever and maintained my 3ghz (375FSB) on my e6400. This with 2 sticks Patriot 667 + 2 sticks Supertalent 667. Same voltage but relaxed timings (5,5,5,13).

 

[allies]

I'm at 3ghz (8x 375) with my E4300 and 4GB of Supertalent 667. 4-4-4-12 timings, DDR2 750. I never tried overclocking with 2 GB, but I have a feeling it might not be that much of an improvement because I need 1.425v to reach 3.0GHz. Although if I did lessen the strain on the memory controller I might be able to get higher. Maybe if I'm bored over spring break I'll see how high I can get with 2 GB...