issues with 2GB HZ settings

[gbaltzer]

I've been trying for a while now to get an overclock I like without much luck. Anyways, I spent a day tweaking this RAM on my DFI Lanparty Ultra-D board and was working toward 270 FSB to get 2.7 on my 3700+ San Diego (it's not a good clocker). So after a while, I finally got the memory mostly stable. Overnight, memtest generated 1 error. But I still wanted to get it right.

So today I decided to tweak further and I reloaded my CMOS to what it was at that time. I was getting way more errors than before, so I ran memtest with the original reloaded CMOS. Now I get anywhere from 20 to 200 errors in the first 5% of test #8. No matter what I do, I cannot get 270 to work. If I hadn't been so close to stable settings before, I wouldn't be upset because you can't always expect that kind of OC. But I'm stumped as to how it all just changed like this with the same settings. Any ideas?

[Zardokk]

Maybe you got a bad set. Try testing the RAM sticks individually. You may have to RMA that RAM.

[GSKILL TECH]

I've been trying for a while now to get an overclock I like without much luck. Anyways, I spent a day tweaking this RAM on my DFI Lanparty Ultra-D board and was working toward 270 FSB to get 2.7 on my 3700+ San Diego (it's not a good clocker). So after a while, I finally got the memory mostly stable. Overnight, memtest generated 1 error. But I still wanted to get it right.

So today I decided to tweak further and I reloaded my CMOS to what it was at that time. I was getting way more errors than before, so I ran memtest with the original reloaded CMOS. Now I get anywhere from 20 to 200 errors in the first 5% of test #8. No matter what I do, I cannot get 270 to work. If I hadn't been so close to stable settings before, I wouldn't be upset because you can't always expect that kind of OC. But I'm stumped as to how it all just changed like this with the same settings. Any ideas?
did u frash with new bios?

still in orange slot?

check my recommendation timing thread?

if everything was good b4 after bios cleaned. then must be something wrong during the process

[ShawnTRD]

Hey whats up? I have the 3700 SD and I've been able to overclock to 2.85 no problem. What's in your rig and whats the settings? Maybe I can help.

[gbaltzer]

did u frash with new bios?

still in orange slot?

check my recommendation timing thread?
I haven't flashed recently. I've been on the 704-2bta bios for a while. I'm still and always have been in the orange slots. And I briefly looked at the timing recommendation thread, but haven't yet attempted them yet.


Hey whats up? I have the 3700 SD and I've been able to overclock to 2.85 no problem. What's in your rig and whats the settings? Maybe I can help.My rig is as follows:

DFI Lanparty Ultra-D
A64 3700+
GSkill 2x1GB HZ
HIS X800XL
Hitachi DeskStar 160GB
Scythe Mine HIS + 120mm
Antec P160 + Antec SP-500 PSU

My settings are all over the place right now. I have two stable OC's in my CMOS reloaded, one at 260x11 and the other at 245x11. I'd like to re-test my higher OC though in hopes that maybe my CPU doesn't require as much volts as I thought. As it is now, I had to go as far as 1.475*113% to get there, which is terrible.

Now for the update. I tried testing the sticks individually today and had some interesting results. So I threw on some decently aggressive timings at 270 and ran memtest #8 and #5. One stick generated no errors in the first pass, one generated 214. In prime, the better stick lasted for nearly 4 hours, while the other one lasted for under 2 minutes. I then loosened the timings a bit and bumped to 280. Good stick got no errors in test #8 and 4 errors after 7 passes of #5. The bad stick generated around 38,000 errors in 1 pass of #8 and 3 passes of #5. I don't really know what to do from here. I guess I'll have to bottleneck my OC to my bad stick. :(

[ShawnTRD]

Ask G.Skill guy is that would be under warranty.

[gbaltzer]

Ask G.Skill guy is that would be under warranty.
I'm hoping G.S Technician will chime in and let me know if that's an option.

As for another update, I decided to get better stability for this comparison. I worked at 270x10 and tweaked the timings. The good stick was Prime stable for 12 hours. The second stick lasted 1 minute 20 seconds. So sad. :(

[TMM]

Be grateful that they even do that. one of my sticks can only do 257mhz at 3-4-4-8, and the other 259mhz at 3-4-4-8. :|

I can't even POST at 270.