Crashing after 185fsb on 3DMark ..?

[Hell-Fire]

Sup fellas, and fellettes.

I can run pretty high fsb when doing anything except 3dmark or games.

I can boot and run Sandra Mem benches at 230fsb 2-4-2-2. I can also boot at 2-3-2-2 up to 190fsb. Not sure if any of that is helpful info or not.

When I push over 185fsb, whether I am o/cing the cpu or not, it crashes when I am in windows. Not sure what is causing this. Sometimes it crashes to desktop, sometimes it reboots.

Maybe my rails?

Rig is in sig, and psu is True550.

[Hell-Fire]

Morning Bumpage.

Morning all. yawn....

[saaya]

you can boot and do stuff at higher fsbs with the same timings?

... sounds like a bug to me... maybe a bios prob? but you can run 190 without any probs for example?

[DR. YT]

i have a similar problem with my nf7-s i can bench sandra @230 but can do 3d only @220 but i dont think its a bug 3dmark and other 3d apps are simply harder on your system than sisoft and sutch but thats a hell of a difference in your case.

[GVCryan]

Try 2 2 7 2. I have found that tras is the oddest little setting with regards to stability.

[saaya]

rule 14:

if it crashes set it to 3 :p:

[Hell-Fire]

I only listed the timings above to show that I do not think the ddr is flaky or anything.

I try running at all timings when going above 185...no luck for any 3dmark runs! I tried these:

2-2-4-2
2-2-5-2
2-2-6-2
2-2-7-2

2-2-5-3
2-2-6-3
2-2-7-3

2-3-5-3
2-3-6-3
2-3-7-3 <---- Settings recommended by Kingston @ 2.7v

Also tried the 2.5 and 3 timings...no help. Only runs 3dmark and games at 185 for some reason. I am in process of vmodding my psu to obtain higher and stable rails. Wish me luck!

I also have the vmem mod running and tried voltage up to 3.15 with no luck.

Like I said, I wasnt even concerned with a high o/c at the moment, just wanted to see how high the ddr would run and still complete 3dmark.