Overclocking RAM??

MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
edited March 2004 in Hardware
I'm kind of a newb as far as RAM goes. When you lower the timings on the RAM, is that overclocking it?? I've kinda wanted to for a while, but a small expiriment made it uhh.... Not work. (And made me extremely paranoid) Steady looong beep as soon as I turned on my machine. Basically I put everything at it's lowest setting and restarted. I thought i fried it or something until I opened my machine, took out the RAM, inspected it, and put it back in. It worked fine after that, and still does. I've got PC3200 at 2.5, 3, 3, 8. Is there any headroom there? Should I look into a ram sink or something? If I lower the timings (carefully I hope) would it do that again? And what kinda difference does it make? Maybe I should just stay away from it with my paranoia. lol

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  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited March 2004
    Well it looks like its lready OCed from your sig. The P4s run at 200MHz FSb already and so does that RAM. Unless you have it set at some Ratio.

    Changing the timings does not really overclock it, more like tweaking it. Just try changing it one step at a time and then benchmarking to see if its stable.
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited March 2004
    That sounds odd... The timings are exactly as they were when i got this stick. It's actually on By BPD or somethin' like that in my BIOS. And my FSB is at 229MHz (14x229=my processor) Also I fixed my sig hehe
  • MedlockMedlock Miramar, Florida Member
    edited March 2004
    Holy shizzle I thought i just killed it!!! I am NEVER doing that again! I set down one of the timings (just one!) and then... BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP ...... BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!! :hair::wtf: I took out the RAM, put it back in... Same thing. tried again. same thing. Tried one more time, waited a bit. WORKING! YAY! :D ....So i thought... Went into BIOS, thought the settings were ok. So I went to boot as normal. About halfway through, my moniter stops getting a signal. :confused2 (Not sure if that's exactly what happaned, but it said "OFF MODE IN 5 SECONDS", and goes blank.) So... Tried again and again, looking at my BIOS settings. I thought they were good, so I went on getting wierd graphic corruption and sometimes moniter turns off, but never getting into Windows... :mad2: :scratch: I let it sit a minute, off. Come back a few minutes later and look in bios again... Chipset clock mode is set to synchronus. I Don't know why, but i do know that last time i checked it was on Asynchronus. So I set it to the latter and hoped it would work, and now here I am... My computer works!!!! :respect: Now I'm thinking the reason behind all the crap my comp's been givin' me these past 15 minutes is maybe the ram was really hot as it wasn't being run properly. Then letting it sit let the temp go down long enough for me to set it back to normal. Never again. NEVER!!! No more of that crap! Not unless I get a new stick. ....No, not even then. I thought this machine was dead, and I'd have to come up with 90 dollars for a new stick of ram. omg that sucked!! I'm not mad at you, mmonnin lol. I prolly would have ended up messin' with it anyway.
    TheGr81 wrote:
    Maybe I should just stay away from it with my paranoia. lol
    If only I had.....
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