htt 1040 too high?

[cretinbob]

right now I'm running a 3000+ at 2.5 (250x10) w/ htt set to 4x. I know I can get this cpu to run faster than that, I just have to drop the mem divider way way down, (2.7+@ 100mhz mem).

If I bump up to 260x10, then I should get , obviously 2.6 (260x10) and the htt would be 1040. That's 4% over...is that too much and would I risk any damage? I thing I'm running my RAM at 166 (CPUZ shows 208), so I may have to tweak it down a bit.

I'm happy with where it's at, so if I shouldn't monkey with anything, I wont, but of course if I could squezze a little bit more out that would be fine too.

I don't know, maybe I answered my own question.

any other info I left out that would be helpful?

 

[Acanthus]

if its stable, go for it, although is no real penalty to performance until you get well under 800.

 

[TheRyuu]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
if its stable, go for it, although is no real penalty to performance until you get well under 800.

Let me add to that, there is no read penalty to performance until you get well under 600.

Any you could even run it at 400, but there might be the SLIGHTEST impact on performance.

 

[Big Lar]

wizboy11 nailed that, 600 or higher is always fine.
I've run at 1120 before, and saw no ill affects on my previous board.

 

[cretinbob]

I didn't know if demons would pop out or not. I was kinda going on the ezoc sticky that seemed to say never go above 1000. I have the Epox 9npa+Ultra board, which I chose becaue of past experience with Epox and the recommendation of anandtech, and all I can say is that it's great.

anyway I am stable at that clock and will probably try a bit more after things have cured up a bit more.

 

[PingSpike]

The reason they tell you not to exceed the specs here is there isn't really any benefit in doing so...and there's the possibility it could introduce instability.

 

[TheRyuu]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
The reason they tell you not to exceed the specs here is there isn't really any benefit in doing so...and there's the possibility it could introduce instability.

Possibility? If you go over 1000 it's almost garunteed to introduce insatbility except on the new RD580 boards.

 

[DeathReborn]

Originally posted by: wizboy11

Originally posted by: PingSpike
The reason they tell you not to exceed the specs here is there isn't really any benefit in doing so...and there's the possibility it could introduce instability.

Possibility? If you go over 1000 it's almost garunteed to introduce insatbility except on the new RD580 boards.

I read somewhere that the ASUS A8N32-SLI and the upcoming ASRock 939SLI32-eSATA2 are both capable of working stable at over 1000MHz HTT. I can't remember where though.

 

[chinkgai]

Originally posted by: wizboy11

Originally posted by: PingSpike
The reason they tell you not to exceed the specs here is there isn't really any benefit in doing so...and there's the possibility it could introduce instability.

Possibility? If you go over 1000 it's almost garunteed to introduce insatbility except on the new RD580 boards.

no, its not

i've had a couple dfi boards and a couple different processors

from my experience, u dont get instable cuz off htt untill its somewhere above 1100

i usually keep it below of course since like others said...it yields no benefits