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my 1.6A + RDram overclocking, and what is RD turbo mode?

dexvx

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Retail 1.6A Costa Rica (from googlegear), with some 'CompUSA silver g00p' crappily applied
2x 256MB Samsung PC800 RDram (from googlegear)
Asus p4T-E (from Frys), BIOS 1005, ICS -13 memory clock generators (I got a lucky board WITHOUT audio)



16x140 = 2240Mhz (70Mhz AGP, 35Mhz PCI), 1.5V, 560Mhz RDram, RD Turbo mode enabled:
No problems, cpu temp under load seems to be under 36C

16x150 = 2400Mhz (60Mhz AGP, 30Mhz PCI), 1.5V, 600Mhz RDram, RD Turbo mode enabled:
Failed to boot windows.... ARC system config error? It doesnt crash it just says consult your windows manual for some weird reason...

16x145 = 2319 Mhz (72.5Mhz AGP, 36.3Mhz PCI), 1.5V, 580Mhz RDram, RD Turbo enabled:
Boots into windows fine, but when I browse the internet, IE randomly crashes. At first I thought it was just microsoft, but after 20+ crashes in 15 min, dear god, even Microsoft cant write an OS this bad

Now my current setting is:
16x145 = 2319 Mhz (72.5Mhz AGP, 36.3Mhz PCI), 1.5V, 580Mhz RDram, RD Turbo DISABLED

What is this RDram Turbo mode?? and should I leave it disabled? My initial benchmarks with SiSoft show negligible difference (oh darn 10MB/sec bandwidth from a total of 3650MB/sec Int and 3620MB/sec FPU). I remember an AGP turbo mode that increased your FSB by like 3Mhz, is that what this thing is?

My goal is 16x150 = 2.4Ghz with 600Mhz RD clock (it can post at that). Obviously increasing the core voltage is NOT AN OPTION because of how this lovely Asus p4T-E bios works, so don't ask me to do that. My CPU heatsink, its not even hot, I can touch all the way down to the bottom, and its 'cool' to the feel.
 
Do you have any benchmarks for your system & can anyone who has a very similar systems also provide benchmarks so that we can see if a oc'd 1.6a with RDRAM at a slightly slower speed is better/worse than a DDR system?
 


<< Obviously increasing the core voltage is NOT AN OPTION because of how this lovely Asus p4T-E bios works, so don't ask me to do that >>





Huh?
 
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