ballistix overclocking

[kingdomwinds]

this is my rig

3000+ 90nm
Abit AV8
1gb ballistix pc3200
500w ultrax psu
6800 gt

My pc is oced to 2.2ghz at 245x9 and ram is at 333mhz divider. My ram cant do 230mhz at 1:1. My pc would just reboot after getting into windows. So was i right about ballistix being crap? right now its chugging along at 200mhz with the 333 divider. And i did relax timings to 2.5 3 3 10 1t with 2.8v

[SIOUX]

My ballistix would run 270 2.5-3-3-10 on the same MB i like the ballistix.....

[cuddles]

I don't like mine. It only does 2.5 to 250 or so then craps out and needs CAS3. 2-2-2 only lasts until like 208 Mhz.

[kingdomwinds]

yeah ballistix sucks most of the time. Mine wont even boot at 250 at relaxed timings.

[cuddles]

All the reviews gave it such great ratings, but they must have been lucky, or fed good sticks. On average, it isn't so great. I should have gotten Rev2 instead

[Levish]

what mobo are the people having trouble using?

pc4000 Ballistix I run 2,2,2,7 @ 200mhz but can't run 2.5,4,4,8 @ 220mhz

MSI neo2

Will boot all the way up to 250 @ 2.5,3,3,7 which leads me to believe it's something in the bios or the mobo itself

[thephenom]

On my DFI, it ran 250 2.5-2-2-10 1T, 2-2-2-10 ran up to like 220.....haven't really pushed 3-2-2 at all.

[Zaffa]

hmm, i got 2x512 ballistixs rated 2-2-2-8 at pc3200

runs 2.5-3-3-10 at 266mhz memtest86 stable - at 2.9v

[kingdomwinds]

wow you other guys are lucky to push it that far. I dont know wuts wrong with mine,

[cuddles]

Zaffa, those are my sticks. Give them back plz

[Wavey]

My ballstix wouldnt do 250FSB with rated 10.4.4.2.5 with 2.8V (RMA'd them like many others have.) Corsair XMS 4400 on its way

[chikitano]

Hello:

My ballistix arrives at 255 2,5-2-2-5 to 3.2v and 275 2,5-3-3-5 to 2.85v.... deactivating the PAT

Salu2.

[S!1v3rB@cK_Dk]

Whats the thing about rev. 2?
Btw. Nice ones u got there chikitano

[Formann]

The BallistiX uses Micon chips just like the OCZ EB... IE. not very good with the MSI.

In my K8NS Ultra939 they will do 230 2.5-2-2-6 easy with just 2.75v .. but in the MSI they wont even do 210 stable with 2.85+vdimm.

[Mana]

i can get 2.5-3-3-10-1t @ 250 and 3-3-3-10-1T @260

i am guessin that u got bad sticks cos i love mine (pc4000 ballistix)

[Formann]

i can get 2.5-3-3-10-1t @ 250 and 3-3-3-10-1T @260

i am guessin that u got bad sticks cos i love mine (pc4000 ballistix)

vdimm?

And whats your max with 2.5-2-2-x ?

[Mana]

vdimm is set to 2.85, and my max with 2.5-2-2 is about 240.

[S!1v3rB@cK_Dk]

How does Ballistix respond to higher vdimm than 2.85v? like 3v+.

[S!1v3rB@cK_Dk]

Hmm, seems like there are not many experienses with the above question?

[Formann]

How does Ballistix respond to higher vdimm than 2.85v? like 3v+.

With my sticks anything over 2.95v is just more heat.

[S!1v3rB@cK_Dk]

Ok, but I think i heard something about the newer sticks liked volts more? Or is it just rumors?

[DeltZ]

my 512 mb stick is weird. (512 mb pc3200 ballistix) they don't like foreign ram timings. Any timings which are relaxed don't work..atm, because of my cpu eness.. I'm running ddr 428 (214 mhz) 2-7-2-2-7 If i try something like CAS 2.5 or 3...it won't boot post or anything, switch off, and reset bios

EDIT: oh god...censoring.. i never knew...

[IvanAndreevich]

What board / cpu, DeltZ? It's not censoring, it's transformation.

[DeltZ]

IC7-G
P4 2.53 (b) 533 fsb
running overclocked at 3.04 ghz
RAM 3:2 divider (yes i know it's stressful and probably the reason why)
ddr 428
160/3 X 4 = 214 mhz.

Hoping to "upgrade" to a amd 3000 + newcastle

Buying one with broken pins...try and fix them, get the msi neo platinum socket 754 mobo off a b grade OCUK line. :P Probably won't work, but hey, worth a try...sell my CPU and old RAM (256 mb ddr 333) to a CEX try to sell my ic7-g for about 30-50 quid. ^^