Damn I'm good at always getting the weird problems!!!! Now, to make a long story short, I wanted 2.88 Ghz out of my Core 2 Duo e4300 (with a gigabyte GA965P-DSP / thermalright XP120 1600RPM 120mm fan/ 1000RPM 120mm exhaust fan / antec sonata 2) because at this speed, I can set the memory ratio at 2.5 and get my DDR2 800 at 800 Mhz!
Now, that part works, but with temps a little bit high, I finally decided to go ahead and lap my CPU and got awesome temp improvement.
And now, I just realised the my e4300 can now be bought for 130$ CAD, so I dont care anymore, I want to push this CPU to his limit! Now, I never ever ever would have imagined that the wall I would hit is the inability of my memory to downclock itself! I'm not kidding, my FSB is at 320, if I switch the memory ratio to 2.0 instead of 2.5, the computer fails to boot and the BIOS reset to default settings!!! I tried pushing the FSB to 330, now it keeps the settings but when I start Windows, the compter resets, tried at 335, same thing.
I tried giving the memory a "+0.1V" in the BIOS (ya, overvolting the RAM to be able to underclock it, can you imagine!) and it dosent work!!!
I would need a ratio of 2.25 in the BIOS, but unfortunately, there is no such ratio available (I have BIOS F9, unless BIOS F10 adds this...)
I can't beleive I wont be able to overclock more because of a RAM downclocking problem, please help!!!!!
p.s. No, I really dont feel like overclocking this memory... Is there any way other than trying to push the CPU and motherboard real hard (like 360 Mhz FSB). I would have liked to do stability test at 330, 340, 350 Mhz FSB before pushing it so far!
Now, that part works, but with temps a little bit high, I finally decided to go ahead and lap my CPU and got awesome temp improvement.
And now, I just realised the my e4300 can now be bought for 130$ CAD, so I dont care anymore, I want to push this CPU to his limit! Now, I never ever ever would have imagined that the wall I would hit is the inability of my memory to downclock itself! I'm not kidding, my FSB is at 320, if I switch the memory ratio to 2.0 instead of 2.5, the computer fails to boot and the BIOS reset to default settings!!! I tried pushing the FSB to 330, now it keeps the settings but when I start Windows, the compter resets, tried at 335, same thing.
I tried giving the memory a "+0.1V" in the BIOS (ya, overvolting the RAM to be able to underclock it, can you imagine!) and it dosent work!!!
I would need a ratio of 2.25 in the BIOS, but unfortunately, there is no such ratio available (I have BIOS F9, unless BIOS F10 adds this...)
I can't beleive I wont be able to overclock more because of a RAM downclocking problem, please help!!!!!
p.s. No, I really dont feel like overclocking this memory... Is there any way other than trying to push the CPU and motherboard real hard (like 360 Mhz FSB). I would have liked to do stability test at 330, 340, 350 Mhz FSB before pushing it so far!
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