Have some various questions about an OC i'm doing on a system, mainly about some of the voltages I can mess with.
General info:
C2Q Q9450 Processer (Normally 333 Mhz, 2.66 Ghz)
ASUS P5E X38 MB
Crucial Ballistix (2GB x2) RAM (Rated at 4-4-4-12 400Mhz)
I'm currently running the FSB at 400Mhz for a 3.2Ghz Processor.
RAM is running in 1:1 400Mhz 4-4-4-12
It seems to be stable for the most part, but I have run into random issues in the past, and i'm wondering if any of it is coming from my Voltage Settings. My RAM is speced for 2.2v I believe, but it seems to be running stable at the default 1.8v I wondered if there was any benefit for having this at the lowest setting, or if I should really just up the voltage to something higher because thats what the manufacturer recommends.
Also I'm a bit fuzzy on the North Bridge and what voltages I might need to push that up to. The Default seems to be 1.25v, I think I upped it to 1.27v just for the heck of it when I was OCing.
I think I have a pretty good Idea on the Vcore situation, but I've always wondered what the Rhyme and Reason to setting your North Bridge Voltage was. Also I wondered if higher settings might actually decrease stability in any of the areas if they seem to be running fine currently.
Also 2 other values in my BIOS that are set to "Auto" are CPU PLL Voltage, and FSB Termination Voltage. I kind of wondered if I should be Manually setting either of those to a value, and if so what value might be good.
So anyhow pardon all the random questions, just trying to get a handle on all these different voltages you can play with.
For sake of refrence I consider "Stable" to be 12+ hours (10 or more passes) of Memtest86+, and 12+ hours of Prime95 in each of the Small FFT and Blend tests. with 0 errors returned ever at a given set of settings.
General info:
C2Q Q9450 Processer (Normally 333 Mhz, 2.66 Ghz)
ASUS P5E X38 MB
Crucial Ballistix (2GB x2) RAM (Rated at 4-4-4-12 400Mhz)
I'm currently running the FSB at 400Mhz for a 3.2Ghz Processor.
RAM is running in 1:1 400Mhz 4-4-4-12
It seems to be stable for the most part, but I have run into random issues in the past, and i'm wondering if any of it is coming from my Voltage Settings. My RAM is speced for 2.2v I believe, but it seems to be running stable at the default 1.8v I wondered if there was any benefit for having this at the lowest setting, or if I should really just up the voltage to something higher because thats what the manufacturer recommends.
Also I'm a bit fuzzy on the North Bridge and what voltages I might need to push that up to. The Default seems to be 1.25v, I think I upped it to 1.27v just for the heck of it when I was OCing.
I think I have a pretty good Idea on the Vcore situation, but I've always wondered what the Rhyme and Reason to setting your North Bridge Voltage was. Also I wondered if higher settings might actually decrease stability in any of the areas if they seem to be running fine currently.
Also 2 other values in my BIOS that are set to "Auto" are CPU PLL Voltage, and FSB Termination Voltage. I kind of wondered if I should be Manually setting either of those to a value, and if so what value might be good.
So anyhow pardon all the random questions, just trying to get a handle on all these different voltages you can play with.
For sake of refrence I consider "Stable" to be 12+ hours (10 or more passes) of Memtest86+, and 12+ hours of Prime95 in each of the Small FFT and Blend tests. with 0 errors returned ever at a given set of settings.