Hey guys,
I've had instability troubles lately. I've isolated the issues to come from my Memory. I just can't seem to find any stable settings. The best one I've found so far will do 3 hours of Orthos Blend test, but then it will fail. However if I use the Small FFTs test (CPU only) it will pass 11 hours of Orthos just fine, and about the same results go for Prime95. I want a minimum of 12 hours of Orthos Blend test to be stable before I use the over-clocked settings 24/7.
Trying the Memory to all available ratios in the BIOS, from going down to 1.7v or up to 2.45v hasn't helped at all. Going from 4-4-4-12 at any voltages mentioned to 7-7-7-24 again at any voltages mentioned still doesn't help... heck, I can't even POST at all when going from 1066Mhz to 800Mhz (yes you read it right, my PC2-8500 can't do 6400 speeds at all). I was thinking the following: 1) The Power Supply is going bunkers about my demands and can't hold it for more than 3 hours in Orthos... 2) My Memory simply sucks quite hard... or 3) My current motherboard's BIOS revision just doesn't like that specific Memory module at all.
Then I've read just a few minutes ago on another discussion forum that usually increasing both the PCI-E frequency from 100Mhz to 105Mhz, and its voltage by around +0.20v to +0.30v will help increase the overall system stability and should also impact the Memory stability.
My question is simple: Is it true?
My secondary question is: Would increasing the PCI-E frequency and voltage potentially and in the long-term permanently damage my Graphics Card?
EDIT: By the way I wanted to know if the timings shown in CPU-z are recommendations? Why is it showing those timings under specific voltages and frequencies? http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/2980/memorycg2.png
Thanks.
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