HookeyStreet
Eat, sleep, game!
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Hi guys,
You may have seen my numerous threads l8ly about overclocking CPUs, RAM & GPUs but I have a few more questions I got my2 new sticks of 512 DDR400, installed it and everything seemed great (it was showing as 400MHz & Dual Chan) So I tested it with a few benchmarks (3DMark03, 3DMark05, Quake 4, Call Of Duty 2) .....not a single problem
BUT! I then tried HL2:Lost Coast........it crashed after 20 seconds or so stating an error code about memory! I then tried to play Battlefield 2. It worked fine for about 10 mins then suddenly crashed to the desktop
Ive tried them both again a couple more times and the same happens everytime so I put it down to the problem that some of you guys told me about my board (and a lot of others) not liking 4x 512MB being installed.
So to sort this problem I went into the BIOS and set my RAM to 333MHz, ran the games again and both ran perfect
But not being content with this I used 'GigaByte EasyTune5' (I know its the basic way to do it but I hate touching the BIOS) to increase the FSB to overclock my CPU to 3.4GHz (this should be ok as I have a Aero 4 Lite cooler) By doing this it also increases my RAM freq to 351MHz.......I tested Lost Coast again and it still works fine (I havent tested BF2 at this setting yet)
So do you think what Ive done will be ok?
You may have seen my numerous threads l8ly about overclocking CPUs, RAM & GPUs but I have a few more questions I got my2 new sticks of 512 DDR400, installed it and everything seemed great (it was showing as 400MHz & Dual Chan) So I tested it with a few benchmarks (3DMark03, 3DMark05, Quake 4, Call Of Duty 2) .....not a single problem
BUT! I then tried HL2:Lost Coast........it crashed after 20 seconds or so stating an error code about memory! I then tried to play Battlefield 2. It worked fine for about 10 mins then suddenly crashed to the desktop
Ive tried them both again a couple more times and the same happens everytime so I put it down to the problem that some of you guys told me about my board (and a lot of others) not liking 4x 512MB being installed.
So to sort this problem I went into the BIOS and set my RAM to 333MHz, ran the games again and both ran perfect
But not being content with this I used 'GigaByte EasyTune5' (I know its the basic way to do it but I hate touching the BIOS) to increase the FSB to overclock my CPU to 3.4GHz (this should be ok as I have a Aero 4 Lite cooler) By doing this it also increases my RAM freq to 351MHz.......I tested Lost Coast again and it still works fine (I havent tested BF2 at this setting yet)
So do you think what Ive done will be ok?