Been struggling to get past 2.35ghz for awhile then I decided to remove one stick of ram. After that I was able to OC to 2.42 with my ram at around 484mhz, that was great! So then after reading about bios version 1009 supporting the 400mhz ram speed I decided to go backwards to the 1009 and add back my second stick, downside, back to 2.35ghz! I have tried reducing the CPU multi to 8 and bumping up the FSB slowly but still does not boot. Also, I swapped out the DIMMS just to make sure that one wasn't bad and they both would go all the way up to almost 490mhz independantly, so I ruled out a bad DIMM. I even tried running on the divider of 333 with no luck. It seems as though once I add back that second stick of ram it won't go past 235FSB no matter what I do. The good news is after downgrading to bios version 1009 I can run at 470mhz whereas before I could not get past 333mhz. Heat is not a problem.
Based on this limitation, wouldn't it be better to have my cpu running at 2.35ghz with 2gigs of ram running at 470mhz or the cpu running at 2.42ghz with 1gig of ram running at 484ghz? Also, what would cause my CPU to hit the ceiling of 2.35ghz by just adding the other matched paired stick of ram?
System specs:
Athlon 64 3000+ Newcastle/CG stepping
Asus 754 K8N-E Deluxe mobo w/bios 1009
Corsair TwinXMS2048-3200 (2x1gigs sticks)
ATI X850XT PE AGP video card
Based on this limitation, wouldn't it be better to have my cpu running at 2.35ghz with 2gigs of ram running at 470mhz or the cpu running at 2.42ghz with 1gig of ram running at 484ghz? Also, what would cause my CPU to hit the ceiling of 2.35ghz by just adding the other matched paired stick of ram?
System specs:
Athlon 64 3000+ Newcastle/CG stepping
Asus 754 K8N-E Deluxe mobo w/bios 1009
Corsair TwinXMS2048-3200 (2x1gigs sticks)
ATI X850XT PE AGP video card