Please help with Ram settings (overclock)

[pRada]

Hi there, I want to get the best out of my ram (as far as speed). Maybe leaving it on default timing is good enough, 5-5-5-15, but I would like to explore the possibilities of making it faster 😉 Ive been reading lots and lots about timings and its just a little to confusing for me, considering that Im still a noobie. I understand that the objective is to try and get low timings. Average good timing is 4-4-4-12? but with that set up, you lose Dram Frequenzy right? Are you suppose to try and get more Dram F or are you trying to get low timings? And how do you change ur DRam volt? I have my set as +.2. in bios. Is that right? If somebody could please, briefly give me advice on what I should do with my 2x 1gig Gskill sticks, that would be really cool! Like I stated before, I have my dram voltage at +.2 but my harware monitor is reading 1.92v, normal? Oh, and fyi, I overclocked my cpu to 3.4ghz from 2.66ghz stock. Does this need to be lower in order to get better timings? Thank you very much in advance.

E6750 | Ga-p35-d3sl | Gskills DDR2 800 | EVGA 512mb 8600gts

 

[nerp]

There have been many discussions here as of late about memory timings and their effect on performance. At the end of the day, tighter ram timings will give you only a MARGINAL increase in performance and you're better off focusing on CPU speed. Reducing your CPU overclock for tighter memory timings will give you a slower system, guarenteed. If your memory is stable, I'd leave it as is. There's really no reason to push the memory beyond spec. Basically, set the manufacturer's recommended timings and make sure it passes memtest. There might be a situation in which you're pushing DDR2-800 to 850 or even 900mhz to keep a good memory/fsb ratio during an overclock. If your sticks can handle that without erroring memtest, that's about as good of an performance squeeze you can get out of your memory.

 

[pRada]

Thank you very much. good explaination. Thats all I needed to know 🙂