On die memory controller heavily affected by cooling
I hope my english writing skills are good enough to make my point, I guess maybe just writing step by step my expierence will help:
1-a643200 on DFI nf4 - under xp120 got stable @ 2,45ghz / 245 mem (bh6)
2 -same chip went under custom phase (limited atm to -20c so atm it's been modded)
3- after the phase experience, i got a 3000 CBBHD to try, at firs would crash @ even 2,05ghz, I thought it was a dog so old chip (3200+) goes back to the same config as before and could not go @ anything over 2,25
4- thought it could be the sink seatting bad, so I got multiplier down to 5x and try, same reset at anything above 230 HT speed
5 - posted for help (n00bness atack heheh) thinking the DFI was damaged while under phase (as if it made sense some damaged board would not overclock as well, I've always believed that if it's gona break it breaks to dead and not only to worse oc)
6 - Just to try i set the mem to 100mhz in genie bios, ran memtest and it worked all the way up to 400ht :D, so the board was not dead, it really CAN be the way i seated xp120..
7 - reseated hs over the at firs bad 3000 CBBHD (with standar thermal grease instead of as5 as it was faster to spread, plus tomorrow maybe i have my phase back) and could go up to 312ht with multi @ 8x as posted in my other thread...
from all this I conclude that even with low final mhz on the cpu, the try to go for 220 or 230 mem with bad CPU cooling was impossible, so the way you cool the cpu WILL affect your mems oc even @ low cpu mhz.
hope this helps someone (as bachus_anonym in his quest to defeat Onepagebook :) ) as reading that thread inspired me into posting this. And after my brain burning to be able to write this I hope I'm not telling an old storie (damn lazy to check but not to write hehehhe).
