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How to train your RAM While Overclocking your Base Clock on locked AMD CPUs

This Tutorial addresses:
  • Overclocking
  • RAM
  • AMD
  • Memory
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Ok this is the problem. Pretty simple fix really. Your RAM timings are set to auto. Every time you lower your RAM multiplier it attempts to automatically tighten timings, causing instability when RAM frequency is increased again via base clock. You need to keep all of your timings loose as if you were actually going for DDR3-1600 even though you set your RAM to 800, 1066, or whatever.

Now instead of playing the timing guessing game. the easy way to do this is to get all of your clocks back to stock, everything auto, restart, then set your RAM to the highest frequency that it will boot. Try 1600, if not then 1333. Restart. Now go into AMD Overdrive and pull up the timings page. Write all of these down, even the secondary and tertiary timings. Restart. Now manually set all of your timings to the numbers that you wrote down. If you are unsure of any, just leave it pretty loose for now. Restart. Now drop your RAM frequency back down to 800 or 1066 or whatever and get back to tuning your overclocks. Make sure you followed those instructions exactly including when to restart.


This was a post I made in this thread on 4/5/12. Good Stuff:

http://www.overclock.net/t/1460769/athlon-ii-x2-220-oc-...
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