A7n8x 400mhz DDR problem

Enforcing the 100% Memory Clock as opposed to 'by SPD' is the recommended way to run an nForce2 motherboard, it is generally faster and more stable. The choise is up to you, and there is no guarenty that i am right but i (and serveral others i know) have found that with an nforce2 100% CPU-Memory speed is the best way of running a board.

Hope that helps

Steg

All right, Steg.
At the moment, I keep my tuning (because it's enough, I have 3000+ XP athlon on motherboard) : 13.5x166 (and maybe 200xsomething soon) and coefficient 120% for FSB but I'll remember your answer when I'll need to upgrade my speed.
Thanks a lot !

agissi

well there was not a problem in my case OC PC 2700 to 3200...I am not exactly sure what OC options the Asus A78X deluxe has in the bios but basically with my Abit N7F-S it gives you an
option for the (DRAM/CPU Clock ratio) I set it to 6/6 wich makes the timing the same as the FSB 400 mhz. Raised the voltage up to 2.7 to give it a lil more juice just in case it needed it. Like I said I dont know if the asus board has a similar setting but i heard they are pretty close to the same as far as overclockability goes...Im sure they have setting to OC memory also.

And also this is pretty cheap memory....I dont know if they have Sam's Club where you are at but thas were I got it from...The manufaturer is "Simple Tech" I am not sure what brand the memory chips are exactly but I am impressed. So I am sure that if you buy anything with samsung chips or equivilant you should do fine. It can be dont atleast with my Abit board and runs fine...

umm... NO, you are indeed incorrect. While most people prefer to run cooler, me being among them, anything below 80C is withing acceptible temp range and should not cause any problems. That being said, cooler is better, but as long as you stay below 80 you should be ok as long as everything else is good as well.

As to you wanting proof, would you like me to get testimonials from most of my clients? As most of them don't have anything more than stock cooling and most are running 60-70C without problem.

I was getting annoyed when my overclocked 2500+ was getting as hot as 50c LoL and its running as a 3200+ hehe....I am in the cooler is better crowd but if I pay the extra cash for a nice HSF I expect it to keep it cooler than the norm....But like everyone has said there is nothing wrong with anything below 80c....if AMD recconends this range there is no if and or buts about it....You really think they want to RMA more CPU's than they have too ?

But maybe just maybe AMD has a ploy that a CPU running at their " reccomended" temps will last just long enough for the warrenty to expire AND THAN BURN BABY BURN go buy a new CPU !!!!!! oh wait there not INTEL never mind

Did you read my previous posts?
Because I did tell you where I got my info from...

It's coming straight from AMD, who is the company manufacturing the cpu's in question...

And I even commented that I used AMD as my source in my last post

So now that I've shown (again) where I got my info from, and that it still shows that you are incorrect saying that running a cpu at temps over 60C will REALLY decrease it's life span, perhaps you'd be willing to show me where you get your (incorrect) info from?



Mict> Creating a new thread to continue this debate is a good idea, but since there are so many posts in this thread that deals with this, it'd be best if they were moved to the new thread... That way we'll have a continuity which it'll be hard if anyone but a mod creates the thread...