OCZ 8500 Low-Voltage Blade

[LennyRhys]

Tried 4.1GHz because it gives me a higher FSB to play with, resulting bandwidth is much closer to the magic 10,000 so maybe a 1200mhz kit is worth it after all

[lawrywild]

The only 1200mhz kits in the uk at the moment are blades on ebay at £93 ($150) each, inc p+p.

By comparison the 1150MHz kits are readily available in most shops for about £57 ($92), so I'm very tempted to get one of those. However the 1200mhz platinum kits are roughly the same, so if they come back in stock after I've bought an 1150mhz kit... Maybe I should just wait.

The OCZ Plat LV 9600s are available for about £60 though

I didn't notice them before I ordered my 9200 Blades. Oh well, I wouldn't reach 1200 24/7 anyway with this mobo + a quad.. and the blade's look f-ing cool

edit: wait, did I just completely blank out when I read your comment :o because now I see you wrote that in your post anyway haha

[LennyRhys]

They are £60 but they aren't available I'm still tempted just to go for 4GB of 8500, it's so cheap in comparison...

[MongGrel]

Yeah, I snagged some 9600LV when they first came out, I'd have 4G more if coulda found em by now personally.

Would of have gotten 8Gb, but the Egg would only let you get 4Gb at a time, I really like this RAM.

Got it up to 1248 the other day messing around knocking the CPU back to 3.75 and was pretty stable, hard to push the FSB on this Q9650 too hard I guess on air

[LennyRhys]

I just bought the 1150 blades, coming tomorrow morning all being well. I want to keep the 5:6 divider so I might shoot for 478 fsb which gives me 4.3GHz and ddr 1147 - will do an everest bandwidth test tomorrow when I get the stuff set up.

[18 is # 1]

I just bought the 1150 blades, coming tomorrow morning all being well. I want to keep the 5:6 divider so I might shoot for 478 fsb which gives me 4.3GHz and ddr 1147 - will do an everest bandwidth test tomorrow when I get the stuff set up.

Try 4:5

[LennyRhys]

I tried the 4:5 divider only once so far and I couldn't even get to desktop, but maybe it was the BIOS. Is 4:5 a strong divider on the P45? I thought 5:6 was optimal.

Can't seem to boot at PL7 with anything lol - still have a lot to learn!

[18 is # 1]

I tried the 4:5 divider only once so far and I couldn't even get to desktop, but maybe it was the BIOS. Is 4:5 a strong divider on the P45? I thought 5:6 was optimal.

Can't seem to boot at PL7 with anything lol - still have a lot to learn!

I'm in the same boat. I just keep trying higher and go by trial and error...meanwhile prying for no smoke.

[LennyRhys]

I tried PL8 forgetting my memory was 1:1 with the FSB, so that's why my PC froze... oops

[LagunaX]

yeah PL 9 and tweak from there...

[LennyRhys]

My 9200 blades arrived early this morning. First boot @ 1150MHz with 1.8v in BIOS (everest reads 1.79v)



Second boot @ 1200MHz with 1.9v



Boot at PL10 both times, set PL8 in Windows. Not much difference between 1150 and 1200, certainly not worth roasting a nice pair of sticks over I'll be keeping them at 1.8v if at all possible.

Amazing memory.

[Sumanji]

Hey dudes,

Sorry I'm being a bit lazy by not reading the entire thread looking for some nice RAM to team with my E8600 and DFI X38 - aiming for 420MHz+ 1:1 CAS4.

Is this the kit to buy right now?

Cheers,

Su

[Don_Dan]

Boot at PL10 both times, set PL8 in Windows. Not much difference between 1150 and 1200, certainly not worth roasting a nice pair of sticks over I'll be keeping them at 1.8v if at all possible.

The difference would be bigger if you ran a higher FSB for 600MHz, but when using the same FSB the difference will be very small, memory frequency doesn't do a lot on Intel chipsets.

Hey dudes,

Sorry I'm being a bit lazy by not reading the entire thread looking for some nice RAM to team with my E8600 and DFI X38 - aiming for 420MHz+ 1:1 CAS4.

Is this the kit to buy right now?

Cheers,

Su

They will do that easily.

[LennyRhys]

I've settled on some numbers = 467x9 for 4200MHz, and memory is 4:5 at DDR 1171 with 1.84v. Will probably take that voltage down as I don't think it needs it.

I'd love to go for 4300MHz but I can't get the FSB stabe and the CPU is too hot, however at 4200mhz I get pretty much 10,000 mb/s on read, write and copy so I'm happy.

[Sumanji]

They will do that easily.

Oh cool - do you think I should aim higher then? Throw some numbers at me!

Cheers,

Su

[LagunaX]

LennyRhys - go for PL7!

[MongGrel]

I'll be trying some things out soon again I guess, had mine up to a pretty stable 4.15 the other day and kicked things around a bit, just have things really stable here atm and tired of testing for a bit

Have some new fans on the way to mess around with too I guess, gonna try to make this thing reasonably quite in the process and kick up the air at the same time.

The Arctic Cooler Accelero Xtreme's I highly recommend as an aside, put the 4870X2 version on my card a week ago, really works nicely. Takes a bit of work installing that guy heh. Cut temps in half and about 1/4 as loud on the GPU's.

[LennyRhys]

LennyRhys - go for PL7!

Can I do PL7 on the 266 strap?

EDIT: no, I cant

I'm happy with PL8. Bandwidth is great, and I may try to get a higher FSB/lower CPU multi organised later on.

[velozzity]

Not trying to hijack this thread but I was curious about something and thought if anywhere someone here might know the answer. I have a Gigabyte ga-ma790x-ud4p mb and a few weeks back I tried the 1066mhz lv blades. For some unknown reason my MB wanted to overvolt these at auto setting to 2.05v. when I changed system voltages to manual it gave 2.05v also. If I adjusted voltage to +.1v I ended up with 1.95 volts (i known it should have been at 2.15). For some reason It sets the starting point .2v over what it should be and the + increments scale properly as if the starting point was 1.85v.
To my question, Will 1.95-2.05v burn out these sticks, they did not seem hot and I got very good results (1170mhz 5-5-5-15-23) on my rig. My mb/processor combo is finicky about what ram works in it and these work fine no errors in memtest or prime95 unless they are pushed alot higher than stock.

[LagunaX]

Can I do PL7 on the 266 strap?

EDIT: no, I cant

I'm happy with PL8. Bandwidth is great, and I may try to get a higher FSB/lower CPU multi organised later on.

OCZ Blade LV 9200's 5-5-5-12 1175 1.8v @ PL7?
YES WE CAN!

[Hoss331]

Thats on a P35 though, I can run PL 7 on 3:4 but not 4:5 or 5:6.

[Rayce185]

So I got the PC9600's... But I am a bit dumbfounded by the speed at 333MHz (1:1) compared to the full 600MHz (5:9):


333MHz 5-5-5-18




600MHz 5-5-5-18





By upping the frequencies to FSB 353 and RAM 617 (4:7) and increasing the VRAM to 1.85V (got a BSOD on 1.80) I did get an increase.
But the question remains: How can a 333MHz clock get such a high bandwidth?

[18 is # 1]

So I got the PC9600's... But I am a bit dumbfounded by the speed at 333MHz (1:1) compared to the full 600MHz (5:9):

That RAM sucks. You should send it to me immediately.

P.S. Look what your Latency did......

[-n7-]

nForce chipset, that's why.

Normal rules don't apply to them...

Irony is, you will likely get best performance running them whatever the highest speed with tightest timings @ 1T, rather than highest speed like with Intel.

So something like DDR2-800 4-4-4 1T may very well be just as fast or faster.

[LagunaX]

Received my $51 shipped (now $47) Amazon OCZ Platinum DDR2 1066 Low Voltage set.
Not quite as stable as my Blade 9200's.
For 1.8v 1150's seems to be it for stress testing.
However, perfectly fine for my third rig.
Interestingly enough, black pcb's and Jedec 1110: