Hyper X. What speeds?

[Meziron2]

I'm not sure if this will make sense.. I haven't slept for about 30 hours now..

My 3200 Hyper X didn't run stable at stock speeds @ 2.6 or 2.65 volts, but it seems okay at 2.7. Will this harm the RAM or motherboard (IC7), running at a higher voltage?

I read that lower timings = better overclocking. Even though it seems stable now, should I reduce it to 2.5/7/3/3? I'm going to be overclocking soon.

Thank you, and watch for the gnomes! :|

 

[pelikan]

I run my HyperX pc3500 at 2.7V. I think that's plenty conservative. Cas 2-2-2-6 seems to be what they like.

 

[LED]

Even 2.8v's is pretty much safe

 

[Meziron2]

I just ran 3DMark with the new RAM in. Went up almost 2000 points from my generic RAM 🙂

Alright, I'll keep it at 2.7.. Still unsure of the timings, since pel said lower timings but I read a thread that got better overall results with lower.. hmm..

 

[pelikan]

Congratulations.
Test it for yourself by running 3DMark2001 with different timings.
To verify stabilty you can run 10 loops of memtest86. You should have no errors.

 

[jamison]

I had a 2.4C, 1GB Hyper-x PC3200, and an ABIT IC7 - the stuff really sucked. One DIMM would just give a checksum error and not work at all. The other would not run at spec and had to be underclocked. BAH!

Replaced with Corsair XMS3500.

 

[magomago]

I just built my friend his rig using some hyperX pc3200. ITs at default right now (not for long 😉 ) but its doing 5-2-2-2 at whatever default voltage the 8dra+ is

Pretty good i'd say (beats the crap outta my crucial pc2700 that is @ 166mhz 7-3-3-2.5 2.6v [i can't go any lower...the Asus automaticlally juices the chip 🙂 ] )

So I say its a safe right now...I wouldn't go any higher than 2.8 tho...and 2.8 even sounds like a strech to me

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: LED
Even 2.8v's is pretty much safe