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New to OCing, need some DDR help

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JamesM3M5

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Hi all,

I'm pretty new to overclocking. I just put together an Athlon 1800+ XP system with 2x 256MB sticks of Kingston PC2100, Shuttle AK31A motherboard, etc etc. I have the FSB up to 145MHz running stable as the day is long. Socket temp never exceeds 113F when running the Burn CPU program I got from cnet.com. CPU is locked at this time, running the stock 11.5 multiplier at 145MHz. It gets unstable/unbootable at 147MHz and higher.

So I was running some benchmarks, and it looks like my memory speed is only average. I have left the BIOS settings alone for now, mainly because I have no idea what to play with and where to go with the numbers. Anyone have some advice? I see BIOS RAM settings in people's sig. To what do they correspond?

Thanks!
JamesM
 
ram timings... in your bios, prolly under 'advanced chipset settings' or someting you will have 'ram settings by SPD' and be able to enable or disable it, disable it and ya get 8 or so new fields that u can change with ram timings...
 
Oh yeah, I know about the settings, but I have no idea where to set them. Test and tune? Lower is better? I have Kingston PC2100 RAM, 2x 256MB. I have the FSB set to 145 MHz on the mobo. If I play with the RAM timing settings, all I'm doing is shooting in the dark. Anyone got any tips on timing settings?
 
Try 2-2-2-5 @ CAS2. If unstable, try the same at CAS 2.5. If still unstable, try 2.5-3-3-5. No? 2.5-3-3-6. Last resort? 2.5-3-3-7. If that fails, you need to lower your FSB.
 
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