Crucial Ballistix PC3200 (DDR400) 1GB Kit - Page 3

Rob Williams · 08-24-2005, 08:44 PM

Could be a possibility of too much leniance. That's wierd though.

Did you happen to try my settings of 270 2.5-3-3-8 3.2v ?

abracadabra · 08-25-2005, 10:44 AM

Thats a no go too. At he moment i am doing a thorough stabily test on cpu at 260*10, i've done occt 30 min test and super pi 32M and its passed both and now im currentl doing 24 hour prime 95. Im doing this to check the error is not caused by my cpu as per your advise. Any other tests i can do to ensure stability?

Rob Williams · 08-25-2005, 11:09 AM

12 hours may be perfect for Prime95. I recommend you use 3D Mark 05 to benchmark. If there's any faults at all, that will usually crash.

08-25-2005, 02:54 PM

when testing ram clocks, you want to remove everything else from the equation.

leave ram divider at 200mhz/ddr400 (1:1)
drop cpu multi to 6 or 7x
drop HT link (LDT) multi to 3x/600mhz

and focus on the ram itself.

(cf)Eclipse · 08-25-2005, 02:55 PM

hmm, didn't log me in

Greg King · 08-26-2005, 12:02 AM

This should help you out

This is kind of building on what Eclipse said. Just take it slow and try to figure one thing out at a time, then move onto another issue. The Ballistix is a tricky RAM to get but it's possible to get a lot out of them. Just keep trying and keep posting here so we can help you though it.

I usually run mem-test for about an hour or so. I have heard that 12 to 24 hours is the target time but I am impatient and I hardly ever keep my system OC'd longer than it takes to bench. When I game, I always run stock clocks but when I bench, thats when I pump up the clocks and see what is in the machine.

...................I need another gig of Ballistix!

abracadabra · 08-26-2005, 07:05 AM

OKay thanks guys.Ive been having good fun! I would say things are looking up a lil bit. My cpu 100% stable @ 260*10, 3d03 pass, 3d05 pass, prime95 (16 hours) pass, OCCT 30min pass, Siper PI32M pass. Anything else i can do for my own piece of mind? I am working on RAM right now and seems to be holding stable 2.5-3-2-6-8-10 @2.6V ddr 480. So is my target now to run tightish timings @ ddr 520 ? Is that going to be possible? Ive read many places ballistix pc 3200 can only do ddr514 2.5-3-3-7/6. I guess well see.

Edit:My sig is not stable

Edit: Maybe wrong forgot rob got [email protected]

Rob Williams · 08-26-2005, 09:02 AM

I could have been lucky that time too, I haven't tried to accomplish that again. I am running 2.5-3-3-8 though at DDR540, so I know this memory is capable of a lot.

If I were you, I'd try to just up the voltage, maybe to 3.0 or 3.2 and then turn your divider to 1:1, to *try* for DDR520. I might tri 2.5-3-3-8 as well.. and if it's not stable, I would blame your CPU. The new Venice chips overclock very well apparently.

abracadabra · 08-26-2005, 10:25 AM

things loking good ive just passed two passes of memtest, ddr520 2.5-3-3-6 @ 2v6+0v03. Ill let it run for 8-10 hours?? then try for 2.5-3-2-6. Pray my memory stays stable at 2.5-3-3-6 for me. Thanks for all your help, i think what was holding me back (providing it does stay stable) was the fact i kept my Trc and Trcf at 8 and 10. Set it back to auto if not running 2-2-2-5 and seems to be holding up.

Rob Williams · 08-26-2005, 10:43 AM

Sweet man, that's great. I'd keep MemTest going for a few hours.. no need to go any longer if you are just going to try to OC it more.

Yeah, sometimes the TRC and TRCF can screw you over, I forgot to mention that. There are other misc timings in there that held back my OC before as well, so I just turned everything to Auto except the basics.

08-26-2005, 10:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rob Williams

The new Venice chips overclock very well apparently.

Venice is the overclockers word for God. They are killer cores.

Greg King · 08-26-2005, 10:57 AM

^^^ That was me damn it.

Rob Williams · 08-26-2005, 11:22 AM

Haha...

I have no idea why the forums booting people out; I have not had that problem yet.

(cf)Eclipse · 08-26-2005, 11:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarkSynergy

This should help you out

just cause i have had a few brushes with evil people over at dfi street, i will provide my competition

http://www.hardforum.com/showpost.ph...89&postcount=2
(basically the same thing though

)

Quote:

Ive read many places ballistix pc 3200 can only do ddr514 2.5-3-3-7/6. I guess well see.

really? that's interesting..
here's how my ballistix does:

Rob Williams · 08-26-2005, 11:27 AM

2.5-2-2 at DDR500 speeds? That's some nice timings there. Is that chart from one stick, or two?

08-24-2005, 08:44 PM	#31
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,246	Could be a possibility of too much leniance. That's wierd though. Did you happen to try my settings of 270 2.5-3-3-8 3.2v ? __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

08-25-2005, 10:44 AM	#32
abracadabra Obliviot Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 39	Thats a no go too. At he moment i am doing a thorough stabily test on cpu at 260*10, i've done occt 30 min test and super pi 32M and its passed both and now im currentl doing 24 hour prime 95. Im doing this to check the error is not caused by my cpu as per your advise. Any other tests i can do to ensure stability? __________________ AMD winchester 3200 @2.55ghz 1V325+110% Crucial Ballistix pc3200 @2.5-2-2-5 1T 3V0 ddr510 DFI LanParty Ultra-D X850XT PE 250GB Diamondmax 10

08-25-2005, 11:09 AM	#33
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,246	12 hours may be perfect for Prime95. I recommend you use 3D Mark 05 to benchmark. If there's any faults at all, that will usually crash. __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

08-26-2005, 12:02 AM	#36
Greg King I just kinda show up... Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Indiana Posts: 2,081	This should help you out This is kind of building on what Eclipse said. Just take it slow and try to figure one thing out at a time, then move onto another issue. The Ballistix is a tricky RAM to get but it's possible to get a lot out of them. Just keep trying and keep posting here so we can help you though it. I usually run mem-test for about an hour or so. I have heard that 12 to 24 hours is the target time but I am impatient and I hardly ever keep my system OC'd longer than it takes to bench. When I game, I always run stock clocks but when I bench, thats when I pump up the clocks and see what is in the machine. ...................I need another gig of Ballistix! __________________ "It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan System: Intel i5 2500K \| Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD4 \| 16GB G.Skill DDR3 \| Crucial M4 128GB SSD WD 1TB Black x1 \| WD 2TB Green x 1 \| XFX Radeonn HD 6850 \| Corsair H80 Water Cooler Fractal Design R3 \| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 \| Dell 2410 x 3 @ 1920x1200 ESXi Host: Intel i7 920 @ 3.0 GHz \| Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P \| 24GB Patriot DDR3 \| WD 1TB Black x 2

08-26-2005, 07:05 AM	#37
abracadabra Obliviot Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 39	OKay thanks guys.Ive been having good fun! I would say things are looking up a lil bit. My cpu 100% stable @ 26010, 3d03 pass, 3d05 pass, prime95 (16 hours) pass, OCCT 30min pass, Siper PI32M pass. Anything else i can do for my own piece of mind? I am working on RAM right now and seems to be holding stable 2.5-3-2-6-8-10 @2.6V ddr 480. So is my target now to run tightish timings @ ddr 520 ? Is that going to be possible? Ive read many places ballistix pc 3200 can only do ddr514 2.5-3-3-7/6. I guess well see. Edit:My sig is not stable Edit: Maybe wrong forgot rob got [email protected] __________________ AMD winchester 3200 @2.55ghz 1V325+110% Crucial Ballistix pc3200 @2.5-2-2-5 1T 3V0 ddr510 DFI LanParty Ultra-D X850XT PE 250GB Diamondmax 10 Last edited by abracadabra; 08-26-2005 at 07:10 AM.*

08-25-2005, 02:54 PM	#34
Unregistered Guest Poster Posts: n/a	when testing ram clocks, you want to remove everything else from the equation. leave ram divider at 200mhz/ddr400 (1:1) drop cpu multi to 6 or 7x drop HT link (LDT) multi to 3x/600mhz and focus on the ram itself.

08-25-2005, 02:55 PM	#35
(cf)Eclipse Micron Lover Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 33	hmm, didn't log me in

08-26-2005, 09:02 AM	#38
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,246	I could have been lucky that time too, I haven't tried to accomplish that again. I am running 2.5-3-3-8 though at DDR540, so I know this memory is capable of a lot. If I were you, I'd try to just up the voltage, maybe to 3.0 or 3.2 and then turn your divider to 1:1, to try for DDR520. I might tri 2.5-3-3-8 as well.. and if it's not stable, I would blame your CPU. The new Venice chips overclock very well apparently. __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

08-26-2005, 10:25 AM	#39
abracadabra Obliviot Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 39	things loking good ive just passed two passes of memtest, ddr520 2.5-3-3-6 @ 2v6+0v03. Ill let it run for 8-10 hours?? then try for 2.5-3-2-6. Pray my memory stays stable at 2.5-3-3-6 for me. Thanks for all your help, i think what was holding me back (providing it does stay stable) was the fact i kept my Trc and Trcf at 8 and 10. Set it back to auto if not running 2-2-2-5 and seems to be holding up. __________________ AMD winchester 3200 @2.55ghz 1V325+110% Crucial Ballistix pc3200 @2.5-2-2-5 1T 3V0 ddr510 DFI LanParty Ultra-D X850XT PE 250GB Diamondmax 10 Last edited by abracadabra; 08-26-2005 at 10:29 AM.

08-26-2005, 10:43 AM	#40
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,246	Sweet man, that's great. I'd keep MemTest going for a few hours.. no need to go any longer if you are just going to try to OC it more. Yeah, sometimes the TRC and TRCF can screw you over, I forgot to mention that. There are other misc timings in there that held back my OC before as well, so I just turned everything to Auto except the basics. __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

08-26-2005, 10:57 AM	#42
Greg King I just kinda show up... Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Indiana Posts: 2,081	^^^ That was me damn it. __________________ "It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan System: Intel i5 2500K \| Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD4 \| 16GB G.Skill DDR3 \| Crucial M4 128GB SSD WD 1TB Black x1 \| WD 2TB Green x 1 \| XFX Radeonn HD 6850 \| Corsair H80 Water Cooler Fractal Design R3 \| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 \| Dell 2410 x 3 @ 1920x1200 ESXi Host: Intel i7 920 @ 3.0 GHz \| Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P \| 24GB Patriot DDR3 \| WD 1TB Black x 2

08-26-2005, 11:22 AM	#43
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,246	Haha... I have no idea why the forums booting people out; I have not had that problem yet. __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

08-26-2005, 11:27 AM	#45
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,246	2.5-2-2 at DDR500 speeds? That's some nice timings there. Is that chart from one stick, or two? __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

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