patriot pc3200

[wallrunnerm15]

i am a n00b when it comes to overclocking. i have a 3500 venice on a dfi ultra-d. i am only looking to push my cpu to 250fsb. however i would also like to run my memory at that speed too. can anyone help me with some sample timings? i am running 2-3-2-5 at 2.6v at 200mHz.

 

[Elfear]

What Patriot ram do you have?

 

[Furen]

Sounds like he has the 2GB set that you do.If so, I wouldnt count of 1GB modules reaching 250MHz. Just run a divider, it'll save you some headaches.

 

[Duvie]

It is the extreme series....I have mne running 2.5-4-4-10 at 520ddr with 2.8v on my X2......The highest I got cas 2 to run was 233 1:1 for 466ddr....

I have my settings set up for TCCD so look for a TCCD version specific to your board...

 

[Elfear]

My 1GB sticks run at 255MHz 2.5-3-3-6 or 260MHz 3-3-3-8. The Infineon chips that Patriot is using in their current 1GB LL series rock. People have been getting some nice overclocks with them.

OP- Are you just looking for basic timings or do you want the nitty gritty DFI settings?

 

[wallrunnerm15]

i am running dual channel 512 sticks. basic timings are ok, but gritty DFI ones are prefered

 

[Elfear]

I'm not very familiar with those sticks so you might need to search the net a bit. The best way is just to use Memtest86+ and slowly increase your fsb (making sure that your multiplier is taken down a few notches to eliminate the cpu as the bottleneck) until you start to get errors in test #5 (you can select which test you want to use in the menu, I believe it's 1,3,5,0,Enter but it could be different depending on the version you use). After you get errors you can try increasing the vDimm, within the specified range set by Patriot, and see if that helps. After that you can try loosening the timings a bit and try again. I usually let it pass 10-15 times through test #5 before I call it good and try the next step up (i usually go in 5mhz steps). That's very basically how you find the max your ram will do. When I reach that point I usually let it run through the all the tests for a good 4-5 hours if i'm looking for 24/7 stability.

Zebo has a very good overclocking guide that has more detail than I just went into. It's stickied at the top of this forum.

It's a lot of work but it really is fun and teaches you a lot.

I'll get my detailed dram timings for you when I get home. They probably won't be a perfect fit since the ram modules are more than likely different , but its a place to start.

 

[wallrunnerm15]

PDP pc3200 here is the memory that i have.

 

[wallrunnerm15]

bump, bump, bump...

 

[Elfear]

I'm not really familiar with that ram. Hopefully someone with the same stuff will chime in.

Sorry I haven't gotten those timings for you yet. I'll try to do that tonight.