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Per the screenshot, I have OC'd my 3500+ winny to 2672 (8 x 334) and a divider of 140 (7/10) which by my calculations should equate to about a 223mhz RAM freq (DDR446). However, Memtest shows quite differently 334mhz (DDR668). What gives?
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Just a glitch. i do not think that memtest is able to detect the strange dividers that are available (140, 180 and so forth).
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Does memtest pass when it shows 334mhz?
What does CPU-Z show under the memory tab?
That is a strange one as I also come up with 233mhz memory speed with that divider.
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Yeah, I ran it for 2 hours and all passed. I also ran Prime95 for 8 hours without error. Pretty good OC for a winny if I do say so myself! :mrgreen:
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Thats very good for a winchester, mine runs stable at 2.7 on water, but no more. Try hard as i might i could not get that thing even one mhz over 2.7.
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That is all I can get mine to as well. Also on water.
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Mine is on air and reaches about 44c at load max. I have had it up to 2750 but it's not stable. It will sometimes run SuperPi @ 2M but most times it fails. I'm probably maxed out right now as far as stability goes. Looks like most folks max between 2600-2640 with thw winny - venice is a different story.
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Yeah, well, my Venice tops out in the 2400mhz range :cry:
So you and your nice Winchester can go... :finga:
lol, jk

Anwyay, what does it say for your memory speed in CPU-Z?
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gvblake22 wrote:Yeah, well, my Venice tops out in the 2400mhz range :cry:
So you and your nice Winchester can go... :finga:
lol, jk
well, you've got to start from a little further down 8)
gvblake22 wrote:Anwyay, what does it say for your memory speed in CPU-Z?
It's not populating that parameter so I guess it's confused as well. I'm actually thinking of getting the OCZ Platinum DDR 600 sticks. I'm impressed that the Corsair mem I have is OC'ing to @450 at 2-3-3-7 with only an increase in v from 2.7-2.8. I haven't really pushed them yet and I think they'll go farther but I don't want to push it and fry 'em. Before long I'm going to have a completely new rig. Somethings gotta give :roll:
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Re: OC Question

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Vstrom wrote:Per the screenshot, I have OC'd my 3500+ winny to 2672 (8 x 334) and a divider of 140 (7/10) which by my calculations should equate to about a 223mhz RAM freq (DDR446). However, Memtest shows quite differently 334mhz (DDR668). What gives?
have you tried a newer bios? there is a newer version of memtest in the latest beta DFI Bios....sounds like a memtest issue.....you can also just burn memtest to a cd if you don't want to use a Beta bios
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I'm running the latest official BIOS...I don't really care if it's accurate or not (I can do the math) as long as I know it's not accurate. But it threw me off when I saw it and thought maybe I was doing the calculation wrong.
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