Hi all,
Should I be able to overclock my RAM past it's 'tested' clock speed?
OK - I'll elaborate. I have XMS3 Corsair 1600MHz RAM. I wondered if I should be able to run it @ say 1660MHz etc or is 1600MHz the absolute maximum it can handle?
Every time I try to crank it past 1600, my PC freezes or doesn't boot at all so I figure the answer is NO but wanted to check to see if there's anything else I can tweak to get it stable at 'slightly' higher than 1600?
Even just a tiny bit over 1600 (say 1610MHz) and it's completely unstable.
P.S. I have the voltage @ 1.64v and have also tried 1.66v (1.65v not possible with my MB).
Cheers,
Jero.
P.S. I'm really only interested because I've been wanting to change my i7 920 OC from 174BCLK x20 to 166BCLK x21 thus increasing my RAM speed from 1392MHz to 1660MHz. Not that 1392MHz is slow, and I realise there might not be a performance increase, but I'm just enjoying tweaking and learning about OCing.
Should I be able to overclock my RAM past it's 'tested' clock speed?
OK - I'll elaborate. I have XMS3 Corsair 1600MHz RAM. I wondered if I should be able to run it @ say 1660MHz etc or is 1600MHz the absolute maximum it can handle?
Every time I try to crank it past 1600, my PC freezes or doesn't boot at all so I figure the answer is NO but wanted to check to see if there's anything else I can tweak to get it stable at 'slightly' higher than 1600?
Even just a tiny bit over 1600 (say 1610MHz) and it's completely unstable.
P.S. I have the voltage @ 1.64v and have also tried 1.66v (1.65v not possible with my MB).
Cheers,
Jero.
P.S. I'm really only interested because I've been wanting to change my i7 920 OC from 174BCLK x20 to 166BCLK x21 thus increasing my RAM speed from 1392MHz to 1660MHz. Not that 1392MHz is slow, and I realise there might not be a performance increase, but I'm just enjoying tweaking and learning about OCing.