Testing OC on Corsair Ram

[irenealan]

Hi I just did a moderate OC on my A64 3000+ by raising the FSB to 220. In Sandra and CPUZ the CPU is shown running at 2200ghz and the memory is also running at 220 as I did not change the default 1:1 divider.

Now I wonder if I am stressing my memory too much and if there's any way I can test to see if my ram is running stable at 220. Since the ram I bought are 1Gb Corsair Value Select PC3200. I don't expect it can reach an OC of 220. I tried to feel if the ram is running too hot but it seems only warm but not hot. Does it mean that I may push the ram a little more. I just scare that it will burnt all of a sudden since I am OCing it too much. Every one please help. Thanks.

 

[irenealan]

anyone can help? Thanks very much!

 

[boshuter]

You are not endangering your ram. I assume you didn't raise the voltage to the memory (shouldn't hurt even if you did). You will know if your ram won't run at the speed you have set, it will not boot/crash if it's running to fast. Download memtest and run it to see if your ram is ok at whatever speed you are running.

 

[irenealan]

Thanks for the help. Now I have another question:

what's the most common stepping for rams? I am currently having it at 2.5, 3, 3, 6. Is that good or I may do better? Just wonder if I OC by raising the FSB, should I lower the stepping? or it should work fine? Thanks for every bit of help!

 

[zodder]

With those sticks, I'd jack the memory voltage (vdimm) to around 2.85, lower the latencies to 2-3-3-6, run mem test. If it's stable, then try dropping the latencies to 2-3-2-6. Test again. 2-2-2-6, test again. See where it starts to fail. When it does, loosen the latencies to the one you used before it got errors.

 

[irenealan]

Thanks so if I am running 2.5, 3, 3, 6 now I should lowered it to 2, 3, 3, 6 first? So is it not likely that people wll change to this 2.5, 3, 3, 5 at the beginning, cuz you did not mention changing of the last value thus I wonder if 6 is the least for the last value?

Also just wonder if I bump the Vdimm to 2.85, will it cost earlier death on my ram or the harm is not significant that it doesn't really matter (I wish to keep using these rams for around 2 years)?

Thanks again for all the help!