Hi,
I just got some Crucial Ballistix DDR pc4000 1GB sticks (2 of them). I plugs them in, having read the various review around the 'net about them reaching 290MHz easy-peasy, and after much frustration I find.... that Prime95 fails if the memory is run at anything more than around 250MHz. Even at 260MHz, WITH 2.96V, it STILL pukes in Prime95 (the sticks are rated at 2.8V)
ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The 'batch' number on them both is CL11172.BG
Do I have to set the command rate to 2T to go above 250MHz? Hope not.
I've got the following (relavent) hardware:
Opty 165
Diamond Flower International (snigger) LanParty UT nf4 Ultra-D
SeaSonic S12 430W power supply
Geforce 7600GT
I set the timings to: 3-4-4-8, with Trc to 12. Command rate is always 1. It even fails to boot into the OS at anything more thant 270! ARGH (times 2).
This is the review I'm taking as reference (http://www.legitreviews.com/article/262/1/), but I think they changed something with the new batch numbers. As I said, my ones are from batch CL11172.BG
ARGHHH (times 3). I could have got much cheaper memory at the price I got these (nearly 200 quid) that would run at similar or even greater speeds...
Hints? How do I get more out of them? I really wanted to run them at 1:1 CPU/MEM ratio (at 1T command rate), but it seems that plan's out of the window....
What else should I try?
As always, thanks
I just got some Crucial Ballistix DDR pc4000 1GB sticks (2 of them). I plugs them in, having read the various review around the 'net about them reaching 290MHz easy-peasy, and after much frustration I find.... that Prime95 fails if the memory is run at anything more than around 250MHz. Even at 260MHz, WITH 2.96V, it STILL pukes in Prime95 (the sticks are rated at 2.8V)
ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The 'batch' number on them both is CL11172.BG
Do I have to set the command rate to 2T to go above 250MHz? Hope not.
I've got the following (relavent) hardware:
Opty 165
Diamond Flower International (snigger) LanParty UT nf4 Ultra-D
SeaSonic S12 430W power supply
Geforce 7600GT
I set the timings to: 3-4-4-8, with Trc to 12. Command rate is always 1. It even fails to boot into the OS at anything more thant 270! ARGH (times 2).
This is the review I'm taking as reference (http://www.legitreviews.com/article/262/1/), but I think they changed something with the new batch numbers. As I said, my ones are from batch CL11172.BG
ARGHHH (times 3). I could have got much cheaper memory at the price I got these (nearly 200 quid) that would run at similar or even greater speeds...
Hints? How do I get more out of them? I really wanted to run them at 1:1 CPU/MEM ratio (at 1T command rate), but it seems that plan's out of the window....
What else should I try?
As always, thanks