RD RAM, pc1066 questions

[Charles Wirth]

My P4T-E (400Mhz DRCG) has been a perfect machine, it has always been my working machine while I OC'd the others.

The P4T-E is stronger than the TH7-IIR at the same speed.

Everything listed above was 150x4 170x3 capable

[dmitriyaz]

interesting...how much higher exactly did you get it?
what AGP/PCI/mem dividers are there?
can you adjust Vmem and Vcore and how much?
what is max FSB the BIOS allows?

[Charles Wirth]

Originally posted by dmitriyaz
why do do you like your IT7 more? its DDR! i thought rd ram was suppoesd to be faster
in any way, how do you feel about th7II? is it the best board to go with? considering i need the fixed dividers

The TH7-II is the best I850 overclockers board if you running the Northwood A

When I stepped up to Northwood B (accepting the TH7-II limitations), there was 2 choices that had my interest. The IT7 (legacy free) and the 8IHXP, the 8IHXP was not available so I went with the IT7. I will switch back to RDR when more I850E boards are available.

The IT7 has HIP6301 for easy volt mod (thanks Oppainter), 4 port ATA133 RAID, USB2.0 and stability like no other board I have tested yet. I was way too busy checking out games to even get around to modding.

This is premodded with MCX478 and 1 case fan. I ran at this speed for many days playing games, rendering, benching, pressing sleep, waking up, playing games, reading forums, playing games, more forums, sleep, rinse and repeat. It is now fitted with waterblock and volt modded.

Getting side tracked, im tired and rambling.

[dmitriyaz]

excuse me for this stupid post , but i dont get this, what color is TH7II?
i see it green and then i see it yellow somewhere else...
also, how many revisions of it were there?
thanks

[dmitriyaz]

same board...?????????

[ASRaiven]

I didn't unsdertand..the TH7-II does have lock for the AGP\PCI, right?

[dmitriyaz]

yes, you can fix them at differnt speeds, including the default (33 pci/ 66 agp)
EDIT: BTW, when is DDR dual channel whatever the new DDR is, coming out? i dont wanna invest in RD RAM if its gonna be really soon, RD RAM is fraknly a very fast, cool and expensive...dead end.

[macci]

FUGGER, you said you are yet to find any that will not run at 150x4. So how high did you get them then?

[Charles Wirth]

Originally posted by macci
FUGGER, you said you are yet to find any that will not run at 150x4. So how high did you get them then?

My appologies for a general statement, the ram I have tested would hit 150x4 ~ 154x4, The motherboard was limiting me from finding top end.

I never broke 155x4 or 175x3 with stability for 3D benching. I went for Mhz vs the x4 ratio when I benched.

Case temps as low as 2c as well, I have been using AC cooling for a long time. I recently started to use watercooling.

[macci]

Ok I see thanks for clearing that up
Did you test them at normal room temp too? I could imagine that the low 2C case temp gave a little boost on RDRAM OC

[Charles Wirth]

Not too often, I was always trying to find something better.

It gave me 5 or 10 stable Mhz extra

[dmitriyaz]

thanks macci, FUGGER, Coolzero2k1 and others, that was all i ever needed to know about RDR.
now the questions about whether its worth it:
I). will there be future RDR (faster ones) that are made to the same standard as pc800/pc1066? there definetly will be more RIMM 4200 and ones backward-compatible to it, but thats not what i am worried about...
II). with RDR, you can get up to 150% of bandwith compared to even the most recent DDR. does that really help a whole lot (gaming, internet, content-creation), or is it almost unnoticable, in terms of real-life performance?
III) how long is it gonna be until there will be a powerful DDR solution (dual-channel, for example)? how much will it cost? what chipsets will support it?
thanks guys,

[Coolzero2k1]

I don't know when their will be dual channel ddr, but for the newest rambus news look at www.rambus.com!

[dmitriyaz]

thanks, coolZero2k1,
anyone else?