Re: Has anyone ever....

[Nathan Dragun <ndragun@dragunenterprises.com>]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:51:27PM -0400, Nathan Dragun wrote:
>  
>
> > Ok, I'm curious here.  I've got 2x512 sticks of corsair memory for my 
> > opteron, and unfortunately they are PC2700 and not PC3200. (Thinking the 
> > max FSB was only 333 when I first purchased this system 2+ years ago.)
> >
> > What I'm wondering is; has anyone ever tried overclocking memory on 
> > their opterons?  Is it fesable?  Stability issues? - although thats why 
> > I mentioned they were corsair sicks, don't know if that would make a 
> > difference or not.
> >
> > In theory I'd like to be able to run them at 3200, but I have no clue if 
> > this is considered possible, and I don't have time to pull it down and 
> > play with it.  Unless I know my efforts are not in vain.
> >    
>
> I haven't tried it, but I suspect if you tell it to use them as DDR400,
> it will either automatically pick slower timins for CAS and such, so it
> will at best be rather slow DDR400 memory, or you have to make it use
> slower timings to make it work.
>
> I have used PC100 CAS 2 memory as PC133 CAS 3 memory before and that
> seemed reliable.
>
> Len Sorensen
>
>
>  
Probably very unlikely that it would be stable with the same latencies 
and timings as the 2700 settings then?  I know that some chips far out 
perform what they boast, where others barely meet the expectations.  No 
clue if Corsair can hold these expections or not. : /

Thanks for the reply,
Nathan
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