How would I notice it if my memory can't do 124 FSB?

[mcbiff]

I have an ancient stick of PC100 (10 ns) that I thought was stuck at 112 FSB. However, the other day I set the FSB to 124 just for the hell of it and it worked. I ran 3dmark2000, a quake 3 timedemo and I just surfed and stuff in Win98 for about 1 hour or something. My question is: if the memory can't really handle 124 Mhz, shouldn't it prevent me from booting to windows at all? Or could it be this sneaky? TIA, 868E awaits.

 

[VTBigBear]

actually it should be able to do that.....
i think..
cause if it wont do 124 then it should not even boot up.

mine wont goto 124.
120 is the max, when i goto 124 i cant even get into bios..

hope this helps

 

[mcbiff]

Hmm, that sounds good. Anyone have any other opinions?

 

[slpaulson]

Normally if your ram can't handle a speed you wouldn't even be able to boot up and probably get windows registry errors or something. If its stable and no bsods then call yourself lucky.

 

[BlazingSaddles]

I would like to know a definite answer as well. I have a crappy PC100 64 Meg of RAM that runs at CAS3 even at PC100. I o'ced it to 110, and my system is stable. However, at 112, I can boot up and everything, run windows, but it isn't 100% stable. I'm only running my celeron 533A->880 at 1.7v, so my chip can still be pushed with more voltage (Golden orb cooling) I also have a 80mm fan blowing onto my video card, which keeps it cool to the touch, even when gaming. The only thing left may be the RAM. I might be jumping to conclusions, but I think the RAM can be a little sneaky.

 

[mcbiff]

This is great. Maybe I can get by for a while longer with this.

 

[Packet]

I have had more trickey problems with OCing that turned out to be ram.

I could boot fine, play CS/Q3/UT etc for awhile with no problem. But after an hour if I tried to play again it would lock up almost instantly.

I took out one stick of ram, and it stopped doing it.
Strange eh?

 

[Quickfingerz]

You're pretty lucky. I could not get my 10ns to 112.

 

[StanTheMan]

try to run 3dmark 2000 looping demo, if the comp doesn't lock up, then your memory is capable running on 124 FSB.

 

[Aboroth]

I couldn't even get my only stick of 10ns I ever owned to 100MHz bus. That just sucks.

 

[bigd480]

I have a similar problem...

The only FSBs my mobo has (over 100mhz) are 103, 112 and 133

I'm rock-solid for over a year at 112... RAM can handle (by SPD) 125mhz... If I slow it down (the latency) can I try to take it to 133?

I've also heard of people putting heatsinks on their DIMMs, is this valid?

 

[Aboroth]

I think that most of the RAM quality comes from the PCB and the traces on it, not the actual chips. You can see this from the big difference between Mushkin's Mosel Vitalic High Perf. RAM versions 1 and 2. Putting heat sinks on them most likely won't do anything for you if they aren't hot already.
We can all learn from Rambus. Put heat spreaders on RAM, not heat sinks! There really is a difference! Heat spreaders take heat away from the source and dissipate it, while heat sinks, uh, they umm...
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