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Mushkin Bh-6 + AMD 3400+ overclockin question???

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Laymen

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Hiya all,

my setup is as follows,

AMD 64 3400+
Mushkin 1024MB PC3200@222 Special Dual Pack (BH6)
MSI K8N NEO-PLATINUM

I do not plan to overclock my CPU since I will be using a Zalman 120mm ACL fan which is very nice and keeps the CPU around 40° but I have a question regarding this memory.

How can I get the 2-2-2-5 latencies on this memory, know that my mobo is not Vdimm modded so I can only increase the voltage on my memory to 2.8V. Is upping the voltage to memory bad for your motherboard, also when increasing the voltage for the memory to 2.8V and the clockspeed of my Mushkin goes from like 400Mhz to lets say 475Mhz would that then mean that I am also overclocking my CPU or FSB??

What should I do to get these low latencies and is increasing voltage to memory bad for the CPU(knowing that I have normal aircooling fan on my CPU)

Greetz,

Laymen
 
most people run their bh-5 and bh-6 chips at 2.8v and get pretty good results
vdimm and mem speed shouldn't affect the rest of the system if you have pci/agp lock or even dividers

i like running my stuff at 2.8 or 2.85v and this gets the memory to nearly 230 2-2-2-6

good luck
 
My motherboard has PCI/AGP lock yes, but what has PCI/AGP lock to do with memory frequency?? Can you explain, is there maybe also something I should do to prevent the system bus from increasing in MHz when I overclock the memory by upping the voltage to 2.8V??

You are running about the same memory as me I see, only yours is 3500. Do you think I can get the 2-2-2-5 latency by upping DDR voltage to 2.8V?

Thnx for your reply man, really means alot, I am getting all my parts wednesday and needed to know what was safe and what not😉 So increasing of voltage to vdimm does not affect any other components except the memory then??

Greetz,

Laymen

PS : What are those dividers you are talking about???
 
2.8v should be plenty to run 2-2-2-5 timings (if the memory can indeed do it) i've found 2-2-2-6 and 2-2-2-7 to be the fastest for me in most cases.
you also have an HT link so you don't really have a tradition fsb per say
I havn't had the joy of testing a new nforce3 board but basically the pci/agp lock keeps yur pci and agp speed in spec when you up the fsb
mem dividers on the other hand let you run your memory at say 200mhz while yur fsb is at 166mhz or vice versa,
200 fsb and 233mem might even be possible, (and several other options depending on what yur bios lets you do)


you shouldn't have any problems 🙂
 
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