Wichester with 4 sticks of RAM.

[imported_rod]

I have a 3200+ winchester, with the RAM in my sig. I want to buy another 2sticks of RAM since it's so cheap at the moment, but I'm sure prices will go up once AM2 comes out.

Now, the ram will only run a DDR333 (166MHz Mhz, which is 5:6 with the FSB) when running four sticks. But if you increased the FSB to 240Mhz, wouldn't that bring the RAM up to DDR400 speed? {{ It would also give me the clock speed of a 3800+}}

Anyone know if this would work?

RoD

 

[imported_rod]

C'mon people. Any opinions?...

 

[magomago]

Check the CPU forums, people usually know more there. Btw, let me know what happens because this sounds interesting. Sorry I can't be of more help than that

 

[secretanchitman]

yeah, post in CPU forums. more knowledgable people are in there that use AMD all the time. good luck!

 

[imported_rod]

Posted in CPU forum: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=28&threadid=1771926&enterthread=y

 

[Arcanedeath]

This is overclocking in general you can get DDR 400 w/ 4 dimms w/ winchester CPU's (I've done it) but you need to relax the timings and set the cmd rate to 2t and in my case raise the vcore and vdimm volatages to get it stable, wether you can do this depends on your cpu some have better memory controlers than others.

 

[imported_rod]

I can get my CPU to 2.4GHz on stock voltage (1.4V) and stock cooling, and 24hrs prime stable. I haven't really OCed my ram - almost everytime i tried, my pc failed to boot, and I had to clear my BIOS a few times.

I just want to know if it's worth buying the extra ram, or if it'll hurt performance as much as it will hurt it.

RoD