Easiest way to overclock RAM

[Accipiter22]

I'm using a amd 3500+, gig of corsair value ram, and an asus a8v mobo...I have an Nvidia 6800GT but coolbits won't activate on my computer...so is there any other simple way to overclock ram?

 

[mwmorph]

nv tweak

or some software that come with your vid card.
what brand is it?

 

[Accipiter22]

eVGA...will that actually overclock the RAM? or just the video card? I already did the video card,

 

[Spike]

Originally posted by: Accipiter22
I'm using a amd 3500+, gig of corsair value ram, and an asus a8v mobo...I have an Nvidia 6800GT but coolbits won't activate on my computer...so is there any other simple way to overclock ram?

Not to aska silly question, but I assume you want to OC your vid card ram and not the system ram?

If coolbits does not work (which is should, maybe a driver issue?) then go with rivatuner. I have never seen/used it before, but alot of people use it as their one-stop-shopping for overclocking a video card. As with coolbits, you can choose to oc just the vid core, just the vid ram, or both.

-spike

 

[Accipiter22]

Originally posted by: Spike

Originally posted by: Accipiter22
I'm using a amd 3500+, gig of corsair value ram, and an asus a8v mobo...I have an Nvidia 6800GT but coolbits won't activate on my computer...so is there any other simple way to overclock ram?

Not to aska silly question, but I assume you want to OC your vid card ram and not the system ram?

If coolbits does not work (which is should, maybe a driver issue?) then go with rivatuner. I have never seen/used it before, but alot of people use it as their one-stop-shopping for overclocking a video card. As with coolbits, you can choose to oc just the vid core, just the vid ram, or both.

-spike

i wanna try system RAM too...maybe that's a dumb idea....

I don't have coolbits, but part of the Nvidia package was another overclocking program

 

[carloboy]

up your fsb

 

[Accipiter22]

I"m not familiar with how to do that though

 

[carloboy]

usually when you ask to up the ram, it means the system ram, so thats what im going to write about.

to "up" the front side bus means to increase the external clock of your cpu, if the ratio of the cpu and ram is 1:1 then it would also increase the rams clock speed.

example amd: ram is 200mhz which doubles in a AMD system so its 400mhz.
if you go to the bios and up the fsb to say...205mhz, it would mean 410mhz fsb. there you upped your fsb.

check out your bios if it allows that, most OEM boards disable that function.

for video card ram/gpu overclocking there are many good apps to use, one of them is called powerstrip. search in google, it allows you to change the vid cards clock settings in real time.

~carloboy

 

[veggz]

I would use the BIOS to up either the FSB or the memory timings. There is an extensive guide on how to do this in the OC forums, look there for details.