What would you do in this situation?

[BlacKJesuS]

I have 4x512mb sticks of pc3200 ram:


Athlon 64 3000+ Winny
2gigs ram
x850XT
AV8 3rd eye
2x200gig HD


My question is....should i take out 1gig of ram that cant overclock and overclock the pc further or......leave the 2gigs in and take it as far as i can?? I can only get to 2.3 w/ the 2gigs and w/ 1 gig i can make it to 2.7 lmk thanks

 

[imported_Tick]

Leave all the sticks in and run a divider.

 

[BlacKJesuS]

i dont see divider options in my bios


and wat does that do exactly

 

[mordantmonkey]

it may not be listed as divider it may just be listed as "memory clock" or some such. It will either be a ratio (5:6, 2:3, etc.) or listed as a portion of 200MHz(166=5:6, 133=2:3, etc).
It baisically makes the memory run at a portion of the CPU clock.
so, 2700/9= 300
300*(2/3)=200
that way your memory would still stay at stock speeds while your CPU gets max overclock.

 

[n7]

Yeah, divider ftw

 

[mordantmonkey]

yeah you will gain much more from 400MHz CPU clock than you will from 50MHz of RAM OC.