My stats are as follows:
■AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition
■Paired with a XIGMATEK Dark Knight-S1283V 120mm Long Life Bearing CPU Cooler
■GIGABYTE GA-MA790X-UD4P AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 790X ATX AMD Motherboard
■CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X4096-8500C7 (I had 8gigs of this but one of the sticks was bad so now I have 6 gigs)
■ASUS ENGTX260/HTDI/896M GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 896MB 448-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
■Running Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit edition
I've been tinkering around with the settings in the bios and can't seem to overclock it without getting the blue screen of death at some point during operation. The manual settings for the RAM are incorrect and after changing them to the stats they're supposed to have it seemed to cause difficulty during start up, so I set them back to the auto settings. This morning after changing the RAM settings again to what they're supposed to be I found that it wouldn't even boot up before getting the blue screen of death. The RAM is 1066MHz and the BIOS automatically sets it to 800MHz and the timing is 7-7-7-20, but the BIOS automatically sets this to something like 6-6-8-24 (something like that, maybe not exactly that). Any suggestions? I'm thinking the RAM settings are getting in the way of the overclocking, but not sure? Should I flash the BIOS to see if their might be better support in a newer version of the BIOS for this type and speed of RAM? Any help would be much appreciated.
■AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition
■Paired with a XIGMATEK Dark Knight-S1283V 120mm Long Life Bearing CPU Cooler
■GIGABYTE GA-MA790X-UD4P AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 790X ATX AMD Motherboard
■CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X4096-8500C7 (I had 8gigs of this but one of the sticks was bad so now I have 6 gigs)
■ASUS ENGTX260/HTDI/896M GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 896MB 448-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card
■Running Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit edition
I've been tinkering around with the settings in the bios and can't seem to overclock it without getting the blue screen of death at some point during operation. The manual settings for the RAM are incorrect and after changing them to the stats they're supposed to have it seemed to cause difficulty during start up, so I set them back to the auto settings. This morning after changing the RAM settings again to what they're supposed to be I found that it wouldn't even boot up before getting the blue screen of death. The RAM is 1066MHz and the BIOS automatically sets it to 800MHz and the timing is 7-7-7-20, but the BIOS automatically sets this to something like 6-6-8-24 (something like that, maybe not exactly that). Any suggestions? I'm thinking the RAM settings are getting in the way of the overclocking, but not sure? Should I flash the BIOS to see if their might be better support in a newer version of the BIOS for this type and speed of RAM? Any help would be much appreciated.