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JasonCousins
10-15-2005, 08:27 AM
Hi all, new to this forum, but wondering if you can help :)

In my nice rig (4400+ X2@2.5Ghz (250x10), 2x 7800GTX@500/1300 in SLi etc) i stupidly chose 2GB Corsair Value RAM thinking it can't make that bigger difference and spent the pennies on a nice big monitor instead... I now however am regretting it slightly.

I have 2x 1Gb sticks bought as a 2Gb kit as it were (product here (http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=217959))

In CPU-Z it is listed as:
200Mhz
3-3-3-8

Has anyone tried OC'ing this? and what kind of results? Any help get some more out of this ram will be a real saver!

Thanks a lot!
uOpt
10-15-2005, 09:14 AM
Well, the actual application speed difference of faster RAM is so low that spending the money on the monitor certainly made for a better experience overall.

I would lower the timings one by one first, not raise the clockspeed. If it refuses, give it a little more voltage than whatever it has now.
varzmaster
10-15-2005, 09:42 AM
Has anyone tried OC'ing this?Look here (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=73530). You chose some pretty fine RAM for OCing if you got it with Samsung UCCC ICs. :)
JasonCousins
10-15-2005, 09:43 AM
ok how can i tell if it have the samsung ones? and also which of the timings is best to lower? and lastly :D what is a safe voltage for this RAM?
varzmaster
10-15-2005, 09:48 AM
Well... look at the ICs. Does it say Samsung on them? :D
Perc
10-15-2005, 11:20 AM
ok how can i tell if it have the samsung ones? and also which of the timings is best to lower? and lastly :D what is a safe voltage for this RAM?


does your mem look like this? If so then your set man...

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=36688&stc=1

peace perc,
JasonCousins
10-15-2005, 01:35 PM
ok just gonna open up my case in a few mins... will post back with results... If it does look like that then what can i expect and anyone able to suggest where i start?
pcworks
10-15-2005, 01:45 PM
I can get my single Corsair value1gb sticks to 278mhz at cas3 4-4-8 2T at 2.65v but I have a crappy memory controller on my E6 SEmpron 2600+. When I stick 2x1gb corsair value with samsung UCCC I have to back down to a 166mhz divider and they top out as a pair at 240mhz in single channel mode as Sempron doesn't support dual channel.
Samsun UCCC chips rock.

Rob H
JasonCousins
10-16-2005, 01:39 PM
Ok i have Samsung UCCC chips, where do i start?

Oh and i have a Asus A8N-SLI standard if it helps...
Plague_oc
10-16-2005, 04:59 PM
slowly reduce each timing one by one
targ
10-17-2005, 03:45 AM
with uccc expect around 240-250 3-3-3-8 @2.8v

as its value, i guess it didnt do 250 or it would be in the pc4000 kit.

gl, let us know how it goes.

targ
varzmaster
10-17-2005, 11:51 AM
Oh and i have a Asus A8N-SLI standard if it helps...It doesn't help... makes things worse I'm afraind. The Asus are known for having problems OCing the RAM into high frequencies with Command Rate (CPC) set to 1T (Enable). But you still should try though. :)with uccc expect around 240-250 3-3-3-8 @2.8v

as its value, i guess it didnt do 250 or it would be in the pc4000 kit.
Corsair doesn't have a PC4000 Value Kit. I guess they didn't even bother binning the chips. Still, great value for money for that kit. ;) I guess it should do around 250 MHz 3-4-3-8 1T if the motherboard doesn't think otherwise. :D