Memory Timings and Overclocking questions

[JimmyConway]

Hey all,

Long time reader first time poster. I just built my new rig, #4 now. Here are the specs.

3800+ X2 Athlon
1 gig corsair XMS
7600GT OC SLi
Abit KN8 Sli

Ok now here is my question. I right now have my CPU at 2200mhz, that's 200 over stock on the retail HSF. But what I am trying to do is to get my memory to it's rated timings while keeping this CPU speed. The timing that the memory is rated for is 2-3-3-6. Right now it's running at 3-3-3-8 and I imagine that is why I am getting frame stutter in some of my games when they load. So if any one has some advice on this it will be greatly appreciated. I am not a huge overclocking kind of person, I just want RAM to run at what I paid for, ya know? Thanks.

 

[JPH1121]

You should definately be able to run 2.5-3-3-8 without issue which should give you a little better performance...but regardless of that, it's your hard drive that is causing the frame stutter, not your other stuff.

I get a little bit of stutter and I ahve a raptor with barely anything on it and defragmented daily by Diskeeper with a system more high-end than yours...

 

[1Dark1Sharigan1]

Did you check what revision those XMS chips are? It should be printed on the label.

But yeah stutter is either your hard drive or your 1GB of RAM. Back when I was still on 1GB, I got stutter in a lot of my games. After I upgraded to 2GB, no more stutter at all.

 

[edmundoab]

way to go with that SLI!!

 

[JimmyConway]

Jeez, I gotta go to 2GB to dump the stutter! The friggin upgrades never ever end! For once I would like to have a rig that is just fine on the initial build. But it's never ever enough, is it?

 

[JimmyConway]

Oh and are you sure it's my drives I have 2 Hitachi Deskstars in RAID 0 on a SATA 3.0gb bus. Is that not ample data throughput?