ferencster

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I have oced my ram (800 MHZ corsair DHX 2x2 gb 5-5-5-18 1.9 v) to 950 MHZ 6-6-6-22 1.9 v.
Today when I asked forum members whi not recomend ram ocing, considering that a waste of mhz Shadow703793 responded me "Because RAM is easily killed by OCing than CPU, because RAM is stupid".
Is this for real, can i kill my ram that easily with safe voltages 1.9-2.1 v in a good airflow case?
I see different branded ddr2 memories with 1000-1200 MHZ and 2.1-2.2v (oviously their are just oced ddr2 memories) and their manufacturers even offer 6 year or lifetime warranty.
From my experience the higher the mem clock the higher the mem read/write/copy speed, even my mem latency is improved...
So why so anti ram ocing ? :bounce:
 

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you are still running at 1.9v, i think you should be fine

but you've loosened the timings on the mem to run at that speed so im not sure how much of a benefit you are getting

if you are out of sync when compared to your FSB, the mem could be wasting cycles waiting for the fsb to provide data to it

but best way to check is just run some mem benchmarks, see if there is a performance boost thats significant in terms of mem throughput and latency

but 1.9v shouldnt fry your mem
 
Yeah, you can kill RAM by overclocking it too hard for too long. It depends on the RAM though since some will overclock better than others. Yours should be fine though. That Corsair should be able to handle more, but it's best not too push it :D.
 

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I managed 912 MHZ with 5-5-5-18.
According to everest:
ddr running 760 MHZ 4-4-4-10: read 6900 mb/s, write 7950 mb/s, copy 5300 MB/s, latency 73 ns
ddr running 912 MHZ 5-5-5-18: read 7370 MB/s, write 7950 MB/s, copy 6200 MB/s, latency 70 ns
So the higher the mem speed the better(timmings count too)