Moving from PatriotXBL(tccd) to Geil One W (BH5)..good idea?

[shaolin95]

Hi!
I am thinking on buying some Geil One W (bh5) that according to the seller hits 270 @ 2-2-2-5. Do you think is a good idea to move away from my older Patriot XBL (tccd)? I know I am going to need some active cooling and mod my mobo as it will only deliver 3.1 normally. I am getting a Powerstream 520W soon so I can adjust rails although I am afraid that doing so could damage my gear. Any thoughts on this? My desire to move for low latency memory is cause my 754 CPU has a hard time hitting high FSB with 2x512 sticks right now I am maxing out at around 2670MHZ. Now if instead of running my memory at 260 @ 2.5-3-3-7 I was able to run it at 2-2-2-5 I would expect a nice jump in performance. My concern is cooling. My pc aint a 24/7 but daily rest is about 6 hrs at most. There are months when it does becomes a 24/7 though but I can probably lower the FSB and voltage since its mainly when I leave it overnight downloading stuff.
Regards

[WeStSiDePLaYa]

Hi!
I am thinking on buying some Geil One W (bh5) that according to the seller hits 270 @ 2-2-2-5. Do you think is a good idea to move away from my older Patriot XBL (tccd)? I know I am going to need some active cooling and mod my mobo as it will only deliver 3.1 normally. I am getting a Powerstream 520W soon so I can adjust rails although I am afraid that doing so could damage my gear. Any thoughts on this? My desire to move for low latency memory is cause my 754 CPU has a hard time hitting high FSB with 2x512 sticks right now I am maxing out at around 2670MHZ. Now if instead of running my memory at 260 @ 2.5-3-3-7 I was able to run it at 2-2-2-5 I would expect a nice jump in performance. My concern is cooling. My pc aint a 24/7 but daily rest is about 6 hrs at most. There are months when it does becomes a 24/7 though but I can probably lower the FSB and voltage since its mainly when I leave it overnight downloading stuff.
Regards

aside from benchies you wont notice a huge difference. and if your maxing your chip, but not your mem, why not drop the mutli and raise the htt?

[shaolin95]

Actually the problem my CPU is the common weak memory controller of the 754 family. With 1x512MB I was hitting 2740 stable and even Super Pi 1mb at 2808mhz. But when I added 2 sticks the 754 cant handle it well.

[szukalski]

I'm not sure how well 2 sticks of BH-UTT will run on your DFI 250Gb.
On mine, I couldn't get two sticks of Twinmos SP BH-UTT to run at anything except "stock" without major errors, single sticks worked fine though.
I was able to get 2 sticks of TCCD running well, but the s754 just didn't like more than one stick of BH-UTT.
I would keep the TCCD personally.

[Nacho289]

Im running a set of mushkin bh-utt on my dfi 250gb and am hitting a wall everywhere, voltage is plentiful (3.5v), And I have headaches getting this stuff farther, this memory controller SUCKS on this cpu.

[shaolin95]

How high are you getting with the FSB?

[Nacho289]

To run stock timings on this ram, I have to run a divider on the cpu, its horribale, so I cant clock this ram up to see what it can do.

But right now, I'm running 300fsb processor, 210ram 2-2-2-5-1T @ 2.8v

[shaolin95]

Since my memory controller is good enough for almost 270 with 2 sticks and 300 plus with 1 stick I think I should be able to do better dont you think?

[szukalski]

Since my memory controller is good enough for almost 270 with 2 sticks and 300 plus with 1 stick I think I should be able to do better dont you think?

I'm guessing that's with tccd, bh-utt is a different kettle of fish on 754.
Been able to run tccd no probs, but bh-utt.. well that's the reason why I bought into 939..