memory questions

[jb3nny]

Hey guys,

As some of you may know i had some bad computer problems that ruined my last installation of winblows. And i sort of determined that the problem was part harddrive and part ram (No boot and thousands of errors in memtest bootiso). I have 2x 512 Dimms of OCZ 2.5-3-3-7 ram (DDR 400 @433). I had to relax the timmings to 2.5-4-4-7. My question is how bad of a performance hit esp in games does this make. Also I tried to set the timings back to stock with 0.1v increase but i still got like 1600 (apprx) errors in memtester and no boot. should i try 0.2v increase. Also why would the timings which worked great to the best of my knoweledge for like a year suddenly not work at those specific timings?

thanks all:pimp:

[jb3nny]

comon brothas' all my memory ram guru's dispell all your knoweldge unto me !!!!:toast: :ohwell: ;) :) :ohwell: :slap: :roll:

[Jimmy 2004]

Not a huge performance hit in reality, not more than a few FPS. Have you overclocked your processor at all recently?

[jb3nny]

jimmy,

yeah its been overclocked for a while.. 233mhz fsb so its running ddr 466 overall. cpu is 1.8ghz stock and is running at 2.1 ghz.

[DaMulta]

I would call OCZ they are very helpful tell them your problem and they will more than likely replace it for free for you. If its not running right at the stock speeds it more or less has some flaws in it, or a compatibly problem with your motherboard. Yes I would say the max its going to do to your gaming is around 5 frames give or take but its 5 frames you could have back.


Do the timings still work at 200mhz?

[jb3nny]

Damulta can i do that even though its like a year old.?

thanks for the tips!

[DaMulta]

OCZ is for life, and when you call them its straight to a person no computer. I love there tech support line.

[Jimmy 2004]

Well first you have to see if it runs at 400MHz with default timings before you call them. Otherwise there is nothing wrong...