OCZ 8500 Low-Voltage Blade

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So not fair... I'm guessing the plats aren't binned as tightly as the blades, because my 9200s need more than EVP 1.85v for 1200mhz.

Very nicely done btw.

My board is generally known to overvolt on vDIMM by about 0.08v.

So 1.8v is likely around 1.88v.

Below is pretty much the highest i could get with the first 2x2 GB.
I imagine i could get higher with more vDIMM, but i'm not going over 1.8v for these.

DDR2-1230 5-5-5-18 loose subtimings (not stable)


I actually had better luck on the 266 strap (2:3) than on 333 (5:8), which was weird. On 5:8, i couldn't even get into the OS @ DDR2-1230 5-5-5.

I tried 6-6-6 as well, but it did not get me anywhere.
Couldn't even boot into the OS w/o missing files or BSODs @ DDR2-1250.

So no scaling with CAS 6 at all
Really too bad...

DDR2-1215 5-5-5 i could still get thru 5 passes of LinX, but that was about it.


Here's as good as it's going to get for me in Everest:



I've now put the second kit in for 8 GB.
Headache has begun with 8 GB, as usual.

With 8 GB, just in Memtest86+ alone, DDR2-1160 or higher is not stable

So as i'm not willing to go over 1.8v for now, my dreams of DDR2-1200 8 GB are pretty crushed.

Trying to get things stable with 8 GB @ 4:5 at this point.

9x456 1.24375v (4104 MHz) LLC enabled
4:5 266 strap (DDR2-1140 5-5-5-18-60) Clock Twister @ Lighter tRD @ 8

HCI 4x1400 MB 300% stable & LinX max RAM 25 passes stable.
Course, after these two, i got a BSOD just while surfing the web...really hoping that was because i just need more NB voltage or vcore (LLC bumps vcore up quite a bit under load, so it's actually a lot lower idle).