Final Tweaking.... Cas2 vs Cas3

[Strike]

People, I have a question regarding CAS2 vs CAS3.

When you are at your peak OC, do you switch to CAS3 to allow you to go up a bit more?

I have CAS2 mushkin and my latency is set to 2, but I am wondering if I set it to 3 will it let me go up a bit further.

Right now I can only get 1026 from my 800 Tbird. I can post way up higher, but win98 craps out.... I figure due to memory problems.

Sorry if this has already been covered.

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[Dark4ng3l]

well im pretty sure it's not your ram. It's the chipset to be exact. What fsb are you runing at right now?? Dont expect much more than 105

 

[Strike]

Yeah, I did read that the 133 chipset had a limit of 133Mhz, but since it booted up fine, I thought maybe it was OK, but then again, I haven't reviewed all the math.

Right now I have 9.5 x 107/35 and rock solid.

I tried 10 x 100/33 and I couldn't get that to boot consistenly into Win98, so I thought it might be memory since this setting was right at 133 Mhz.

I am wondering if I am at the top, but also wondering about other BIOS settings. ie. CPU Drive Level? I am using 2, but wonder what 3 would do. I am currently testing memory perf as I have read that Fast maybe faster than Turbo for a RAM setting.

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[cabojoe]

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If you check out the April 2000 Anandtech Memory roundup, you will notice that the Mushkin rev 2 tops out at 146 mghtz at both cas 3 and cas 2. Check your memory bus speed with SSandra.



Athlon 850 @ 1028 1/3 L2 1.95 volts
Abit KA7
128 megs Mushkin Rev.2 PC-133 running cas2 at 144 mhtz.
Ninja Micros FreeSpeed Pro goldfinger
GlobalWin FKK32 Heatsink/Fans

 

[Strike]

So, I guess what your saying is that due to several factors, I am at my peak in terms of bus speed. which I realize, but my quandry was why couldn't I get 10 x 100/33 to work? My feeling here is that I may need to use something besides the pencil trick. Seems people get much better results when using loctite or conductive pen.

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[Strike]

other opinions?

Why I can't get 10 x 100 to work?

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[pdo]

Here's what tripping me out. I've tried using 110FSB. It was stable and all but when I download RAR files. It would give CRC error when unraring files. Went back to 100FSB and have no problem.

 

[Strike]

To me that makes sense. 110 + 37(?) ( I can't remember what the second speed is ) but regardless, when your at 110+xx your way close to the RAM threshold, in my opinion.

But when I try 100+33 x 10, I shouldn't be pushing the RAM limit, nor the VIA 133 limit. So, I am still wondering why I can't use a 10 multiplier... I am guessing I could do better with a better L1 connect.

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