Impressive Kingston memory

[Montrey]

Just thought I'd let you guys know about my experience with two sticks of Kingston ValueRAM PC2100 256MB. I started testing on my 8RDA3+ half heartedly, not expecting to get these up past 140 or 150 FSB at 100% fsb:memory. Used memtest86, surprised the hell out of me when the first errors occurred at 188mhz. Admittedly, the timings were only 2.5-3-3-6, but damn, they were performing better than some PC2700 sticks. I ended up setting it at 180x12.0 with an Athlon XP 2200+, 1.95 vcore and 2.9 volts vdimm, boots up, and runs Prime95 hardcore flawlessly at 56 degrees with a Volcano 10+. Memory doesn't really even get warm to the touch, either. Will almost hate to retire this stuff when I get a Barton, but I'm anxious to try for 200+ This is my first overclocked system, I think I'm addicted now.

 

[Shimmishim]

get your wife/girlfriend/mom or whoever to take away your credit card!!!

it gets expensive


or send your credit cards to me ... i'll make sure that no one uses them... or something....

hahaha....

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: Montrey
Just thought I'd let you guys know about my experience with two sticks of Kingston ValueRAM PC2100 256MB. I started testing on my 8RDA3+ half heartedly, not expecting to get these up past 140 or 150 FSB at 100% fsb:memory. Used memtest86, surprised the hell out of me when the first errors occurred at 188mhz. Admittedly, the timings were only 2.5-3-3-6, but damn, they were performing better than some PC2700 sticks. I ended up setting it at 180x12.0 with an Athlon XP 2200+, 1.95 vcore and 2.9 volts vdimm, boots up, and runs Prime95 hardcore flawlessly at 56 degrees with a Volcano 10+. Memory doesn't really even get warm to the touch, either. Will almost hate to retire this stuff when I get a Barton, but I'm anxious to try for 200+ This is my first overclocked system, I think I'm addicted now.

i wonder how long it'll take for your cpu to burn...

 

[McArra]

Originally posted by: shady06

Originally posted by: Montrey
Just thought I'd let you guys know about my experience with two sticks of Kingston ValueRAM PC2100 256MB. I started testing on my 8RDA3+ half heartedly, not expecting to get these up past 140 or 150 FSB at 100% fsb:memory. Used memtest86, surprised the hell out of me when the first errors occurred at 188mhz. Admittedly, the timings were only 2.5-3-3-6, but damn, they were performing better than some PC2700 sticks. I ended up setting it at 180x12.0 with an Athlon XP 2200+, 1.95 vcore and 2.9 volts vdimm, boots up, and runs Prime95 hardcore flawlessly at 56 degrees with a Volcano 10+. Memory doesn't really even get warm to the touch, either. Will almost hate to retire this stuff when I get a Barton, but I'm anxious to try for 200+ This is my first overclocked system, I think I'm addicted now.

i wonder how long it'll take for your cpu to burn...

Yep, 1,95v !!!!!!!! you're mad

 

[Montrey]

hopefully it'll last just long enough for me to get a barton 2500+. speaking of which, when i do, anyone want to buy a t-bred 2200+ in, *ahem* 'like new' condition? it's only about 2 months old little bit of thermal grease on it is all...

anyway, seriously, how high of vcore should i consider running this at to give the cpu a reasonable lifespan? i was under the impression that voltage didn't matter, as long as it's kept cool. thought that was why water coolers were able to get such high overclocks, pumping up the voltage a lot and still keeping the cpu cool. right now it's idling at 47 degrees, and the actual vcore reading is 1.92 volts (1.95 is what i set to board to)

any tips would be appreciated, as i said, this is my first OC

 

[McArra]

I think 1.85v at highest, not more and with very good cooling. And 47C idle is quite bad temp, at full load..... too much I believe.

 

[Montrey]

Finally settled on an OC I'm happy to run constantly at, 2.013 ghz (11.5x175). Again I must say that I love this memory for what it is, tested perfectly under Memtest86 at 2.0-2-2-6 timings now at 177 mhz, at 2.9 volts (still not really even warm). Thanks for the advice, McArra, I'm now running without errors in Prime95 at 1.725 volts. CPU is idling at 40 and under Prime95 torture test tops at about 46 degrees.

 

[Soulkeeper]

Originally posted by: Montrey
hopefully it'll last just long enough for me to get a barton 2500+. speaking of which, when i do, anyone want to buy a t-bred 2200+ in, *ahem* 'like new' condition? it's only about 2 months old little bit of thermal grease on it is all...

anyway, seriously, how high of vcore should i consider running this at to give the cpu a reasonable lifespan? i was under the impression that voltage didn't matter, as long as it's kept cool. thought that was why water coolers were able to get such high overclocks, pumping up the voltage a lot and still keeping the cpu cool. right now it's idling at 47 degrees, and the actual vcore reading is 1.92 volts (1.95 is what i set to board to)

any tips would be appreciated, as i said, this is my first OC

heh might be hard to sell that chip once you tell people you've run it over 1.9v
but it looks like you got some good memory there for the price

 

[ScrewFace]

Well, I'm running my Athlon Xp 2400+ at 2.525GHz (12.5x202) using 2.15 volts and cooling my computer with a 5250 BTU air-conditioner and my CPU temps are 33C idle and 44C full load. It doesn't matter how much voltage you use as long as you keep the CPU temp down. 56C is way to high.:beer:

 

[pelikan]

I am comfortable in the 1.9V neighborhood. As long as the cooling is very good.

 

[xSauronx]

what chips are on the ram? should be getting some kingston 2100 with ynix chips on it in a few days and expect it to oc a bit, last time i had pc2100 with hynix chips on it i got it to ~185mhz but the cpu didnt want to go that high and play nice so i settled at 180 (palomino 1600+)

 

[Montrey]

Just pulled it out and looked, I can't find a brand of chip on it, just says "32Mx8 DDR-7-T" on each chip. They're 256 meg sticks, single sided. I'm pretty sure this stuff is new (bought it unopened on eBay), maybe it's so late in the game for PC2100, and PC2700 is so close to the same price, that they're just shipping PC2700 as PC2100 to meet orders? I've heard AMD and Intel do that a lot, as the manufacturing process matures almost all of the stuff they turn out is good enough to be stamped with the higher ghz rating, but they have to meet demand for the lower speed cpus and/or aren't ready to knock down the prices, so they just stamp like a 2.6 ghz as a 2.4 and send it out. Anyway, lemme know how your sticks turn out

By the way, are my timings good? 2-2-2 is the lowest i can go on my board, but I've heard that you want to keep the last one (too lazy to look up the name) at 2x +2 one of the timings (again too lazy to look it up) for best performance. Suggestions?