One more question

My Winchester at 10x at 240 is running 4 512 double-sided Kingmax Super Rams
at 200 - they're set on 166. Before overclocking I locked the timings that
resulted from 200 and auto.

Motherboard is nforce 3 ultra -- Gigabyte K8NS-939.


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"Ed Light" wrote in message
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My Winchester at 10x at 240 is running 4 512 double-sided Kingmax Super
Rams at 200 - they're set on 166. Before overclocking I locked the timings
that resulted from 200 and auto.

Motherboard is nforce 3 ultra -- Gigabyte K8NS-939.


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Ed Light

Well, it's not my Winnie, then.
Guess I'll just be satisfied with the 166.7 and 10x at 250. It's not like
I'm encountering any delays .

Thanks for educating me!

"Peter van der Goes" wrote in message
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"Ed Light" wrote in message
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My Winchester at 10x at 240 is running 4 512 double-sided Kingmax Super
Rams at 200 - they're set on 166. Before overclocking I locked the
timings that resulted from 200 and auto.

Motherboard is nforce 3 ultra -- Gigabyte K8NS-939.


--
Ed Light

Well, it's not my Winnie, then.
Guess I'll just be satisfied with the 166.7 and 10x at 250. It's not like
I'm encountering any delays .

Thanks for educating me!

It could be a motherboard thing. Or a memory -- motherboard compatibility
thing. There are certain parameters (which I don't remember at all) that
motherboards and memory have which can't always match. If only they were
standardized, then they always would. So, when the memory is close enough to
the motherboard in these parameters, they work great, but if it's too
different, it doesn't. Somehow some memory makers manage to make their
memory work on most boards. Like Kingston Value RAM, Corsair Value Select.
And Kingmax Super RAM. Once I got a stick of the Value Select, though, and
when I bought another it was totally different, with different chips, and
wouldn't run in dual channel with the other one. So now I buy dual channel
kits and if I need 2 kits I'll buy them together. Just did that once. 2
gigs. That should be good for awhile! I figured I'd skip one of my usual
minimal upgrades by doing a maximal one. Like a new tire can equal two used
tires. Nowadays I'd get a kit of two 1-gig ones -- the price is ok.

I tried benchmarking with futuremark apps, comparing runs with the memory at
an actual 200 and then 166; and it didn't make much difference. I'm trying
to remember - maybe 3% at most. It's still going really fast that way due to
being in dual-channel. Faster than single-channel 200.

Actually, I think Winchesters aren't even supposed to run 4 sticks at 200;
they always default to 166, but you can do it if your memory and board are
happy.

I'm not a timing expert -- I'm just using the timings in the spd for 200 -
but maybe you could do run 200 by loosening up the timings.

Oh, and make sure that the 2T/1T memory setting is set on "2T" or auto. If I
remember the name of that setting correctly. This is required for 4 sticks.
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