Hello,
I've got an E6300 on an Asus P5B-E motherboard and an aftermarket cooling solution, a Thermaltake Big Typhoon (coupled with a more efective fan than the original one). I used to have 1gb of DDR-2 800 A-Data Vitesta RAM, wich could only clock up to 429 MHz (858 DDR), so my overclock was memory-limited to 3.0 GHz (429 x 7).
Recently I've changed the A-Data memory for 2 Gb of very cheap OEM DDR-2 800 (I think the brand is "Eudar Tech." or something like that, never heard before about).
Surprisingly, despite not having heatsinks as the A-Data memory had, this new OEM memory overclocks much more, and I could even boot the computer at a wooping 3.47 GHz (almost DDR-2 1000).
Since I don't like to run the hardware at its limits, I clocked it down to 3.30 GHz (472 x 7) and the system runs just fine, except in intensive 3D game situations like FIA GTR 2 and 3DMark06, where it crashes quite often showing the BSOD and rebooting.
If I scale down the overclock to 3.20 GHz (457 x 7), everything runs just fine though.
My question is: what's preventing me from running stable 3D applications at 3.30 GHz? It's not CPU overheating, because the temperature never reaches even 60ºC. It's not lack of CPU voltage either, because I've upped it from 1.4625v to 1.4750v and even above, and that doesn't stop the crashes from happening. I've also set the memory voltage (2.1v) and FSB voltage (1.450v) to the maximum, obviously.
Could it be the memory that's overheating? Is it a good move to buy some RAM heatsinks, would that likely solve my problem? Thanks in advance.
PS - It's not a graphics card-related problem, because it happened with my old GeForce 7600GT and still happens with my new x1950Pro.
I've got an E6300 on an Asus P5B-E motherboard and an aftermarket cooling solution, a Thermaltake Big Typhoon (coupled with a more efective fan than the original one). I used to have 1gb of DDR-2 800 A-Data Vitesta RAM, wich could only clock up to 429 MHz (858 DDR), so my overclock was memory-limited to 3.0 GHz (429 x 7).
Recently I've changed the A-Data memory for 2 Gb of very cheap OEM DDR-2 800 (I think the brand is "Eudar Tech." or something like that, never heard before about).
Surprisingly, despite not having heatsinks as the A-Data memory had, this new OEM memory overclocks much more, and I could even boot the computer at a wooping 3.47 GHz (almost DDR-2 1000).
Since I don't like to run the hardware at its limits, I clocked it down to 3.30 GHz (472 x 7) and the system runs just fine, except in intensive 3D game situations like FIA GTR 2 and 3DMark06, where it crashes quite often showing the BSOD and rebooting.
If I scale down the overclock to 3.20 GHz (457 x 7), everything runs just fine though.
My question is: what's preventing me from running stable 3D applications at 3.30 GHz? It's not CPU overheating, because the temperature never reaches even 60ºC. It's not lack of CPU voltage either, because I've upped it from 1.4625v to 1.4750v and even above, and that doesn't stop the crashes from happening. I've also set the memory voltage (2.1v) and FSB voltage (1.450v) to the maximum, obviously.
Could it be the memory that's overheating? Is it a good move to buy some RAM heatsinks, would that likely solve my problem? Thanks in advance.
PS - It's not a graphics card-related problem, because it happened with my old GeForce 7600GT and still happens with my new x1950Pro.
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