Safe Overclock?

[mrSHEiK124]

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That's how it's running now; Zalman CNPS-9500 cooling the CPU with four 80mm fans in the case, one exhaust in the back, one in the window, and two intake in the front. The RAM worries me a little, as it's only stable at 2.85V but the SPD is supposedly programmed to 2.5V...

Running Prime95 right now to see how stable it is.

 

[MarcVenice]

Hmm, I think the CPU-Z readout on the SPD voltage is incorrect, most ddr is safe around 2.6-2.8, and will often do 2.9v as well. You are overclocking the ram though, it's running at ddr 454mhz, 54mhz over stock, and you have pretty tight timings too. Loosen the timings, choose a different multiplier, like 166mhz instead, and you could overclock further, AND probably run with a less high voltage on the ram as well.

 

[dennilfloss]

If I set the memclock on my A8N32-SLI-DX to limit, then 166MHz, my Manchester 4200+ can do 11x245MHz stable (with the vcore set to 1.3875v. I tend to remain at 11x200 because I don't like Speedfan to show a core temp of 58-60C (it's very warm in my apartment).

 

[jonnyhazE]

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/3841/ocinfosb0.jpg

I have the pretty much the same setup as you.
Didnt need to change voltage and i use stock cooling.
I think your ram is pushing the limits though...

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Sorry for not being more specific about hardware; I've got an ASUS A8N-E, GeForce 7800GT with a small OC, four hard drives, two optical drives, Creative X-Fi Platinum, and a 480W Enermax PSU w/PFC.

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Just ended Prime95 over Remote Desktop because I didn't want it to run overnight as I'm away from home and frequently need to get files off it; won't work too well if it's crashed.

This RAM is freakin' insane, it's running stock timings at 454 MHz; my old Kingston HyperX 466 MHz could barely handle it's own shitty stock timings at 440...