Overclocking the RAM

[saurabh tandon]

I installed two sticks into the motherboard i.e. intel i3 2100. (Which supports max 1333 mhz of ram speed.)

1. Hyperx fury 8 gb ddr3 @1800 mhz with latency 8 8 8 24 @ 1.5 v.

2. Apacer 4 gb ddr3 @ 1600 mhz with latency 9 9 9 24 @ 1.5 v.

In bios it is showing Total 12 gb of ram @ 1333mhz with latency 9 9 9 24.


My question is can i overclock ? As i cant increase frequenct because my mobo supports only 1333 mhz max speed. Im thinking to overclock latency and voltage. So can i bump the latency from 9 9 9 24 to 8 8 8 22 ??? If yes then tell me how much i have to increase the voltages ? (Current is 1.5 v. )Thanks.

 

[Supahos]

Just try 1.55v and start by only lowering the first number. It's the latency and will make the biggest improvement. From that point it's kind of trial and error. I wouldn't go past 1.55v to get it stable as even if you get it to run at 7-8-8-21 or something you won't notice much difference

 

[saurabh tandon]

Thanks

 

[saurabh tandon]

I did what you said but it only ceeated a chaos.
I changed cl to 8 and voltage to 1.55 and hit exit. My pc would not boot up. The only things i m left with are three constant beeps. After one hour of struggle, replacing cmos battery there was no luck. I came to my mobo manual and then i switched the jumper from 1 2 to 2 3 then it asked me to confogure bios and i got my pc turned on by resetting bios to default.

 

[Supahos]

Never any guarantee overclocking will get you anything. Seems that memory was binned about right