ocz memory overclocking need experienced help

K heres the deal.
I recently bought an amd x2 4400+ and have been running stabally at 2.6ghz (10x260 @1.45v) altho i have noticed that my ram now lists as ddr 226 wtf? I have brand new ocz gold ddr400 (2.2.2.5 timings) I can increased this value to 333mhz in the bios and notice that my 3d mark 05 score jumps from 11200 to 11500 but i cant get it running stable at ddr400 with the cpu like this. Have tried increasing the volts but my mobo only goes to 3v.
any suggestions are welcome im a noob at this. Thanks

You're right, you do have kickass memory, unfortunately, it is made for being kickass out of the box. Not for overclocking into greatness.

You would need a more relaxed timing on your speeds in order to get the right performace out of the memory.

The FSB vs. Memory timings is a give/take situation. If you increase your FSB by overclocking, you usually have to relax your memory back down to like ddr266 instead of ddr400.

Here is a great article by OCZ, very hard to find just by searching thier website however:

http://www.ocztechnology.com/support/performance/

I have the gold series and the same processer as you too. But my gold series is the 3-4-3-8 timings, the performace difference is nominal between that, and the 2-2-2-5 timings, like 2-3%, but I can overclock the crap out of my FSB and still use my memory at ddr400 1T timings.

The timings are just too tight on your setup to do anything overboard with them. Suprised you have gotten it as far as you did.

(P.S. Work on the spelling, PLEASE.)

If you have questions or troubles just go to the source.
The OCZ support and overclocking forums!

http://www.bleedinedge.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=54