X2 3800 OC disasters

CaPtAiN_InSaNo

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Has any one else experienced hard locks on a brand new 3800 X2 Manchester using 4x512mb ram? I originally had 2x512 mb OCZ PC4000 Gold R2, but then there was that game, Da** that game! BF2 came out and raped my ram again and again. So i had to add another 2x512 because i could not afford 2x1024mb. When i oc'd with my Winchester it was fine, but the 3800 X2 gets hard locks constantly at 1.5v, 10x, @2.4ghz even. That's very dissappointing. I don't think its the CPU its self that's not ocing, but rather because of the stress that or running 4 dimms, Anandtech said they had disasterous results on thier 3800 X2 manchester when using 4 sticks. My question is why? And i will find out in a couple of days, cause OCZ is graceous enough to replace my 4x512's with 2x1024 of their Gold GXT stuff with the heat convection spreader. And its not the heat, because i'm running the Thermalright SI-120 cooler with a panaflow 92cfm 120mm fan.

Also, is this a good core revision for ocing? According to CPU-Z, Stepping=2, Revision=JH-E6
 

apesoccer

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Everyone has issues running 4x512...

Most can't run the ram at stock speeds...
Most motherboards clock the ram down to 333 regardless when running 4 sticks of ram, so that you're starting with a divider...400:333 (cpu bus:ram bus [no pun intended]).

So you may be able to oc that a little, but not much. There have been people that have recorded as high as 500:500, but that was on tccd ram and 2T timings. I've seen where two people bought the same 4x512 of tccd and one was able to oc fairly high, and the other was stuck almost at stock.

If you do a search for 4x512 you'll have a few hits...

Probably your best bet, for stability, is to not oc. Or save your money and buy some of the 2x1024 stuff that does. =(

edit: sorry i just noticed you had 2x1024 on the way...gratz.