why does my ram overclock to much is this normal?!!!

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  1. elokito

    elokito Regular member

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    ok my ram is clocked at 533mhz I have it overclocked to 671mhz without even a fan blowing to it, its runing stable since I have encoded videos and played games but y can I overclock this high ex was it mislabeled and instead its a 667mhz ram? cause ive heard people that just by oc it by 20mhz they start to crash and stuff

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    It happens, its probably good RAM. high quality stuff should overclock that much. It's got high latencies (4-4-4-12) so it should easily achieve that speed. Nice work!
     
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    elokito Regular member

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    im gonna buy some more ram another stick of 512 ddr2 at 533mhz samsung so do u think it should also go that far
     
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    Quite Possibly.
     
  5. elokito

    elokito Regular member

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    I added the 512 stick yesterday but it was damaged so i replaced it today and its overclocked and runin stable I was gonna buy another 1 today but he only had those 2 but he said hes gonna change it and he will have it by tomorrow
     
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    So what you want three? Uh-uh, not three, that will seriously hamper your performance, stick with 2 or 4, but preferably just the two. If you want more RAM you really want 2x1GB not 4x512MB, the latencies increase when you have more than 2 sticks installed.
     
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    I have 3 now so 1.5gb im gonna have 4 512 sticks dont tell me that the its gonna go slow cause that is bs i had 2*1gb b4 and 4*512 and 4*512 was better in gaming (thats what i do the most) and if u insist on the ram going slow it sure can beat ure pc3200 any day
     
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    It can, I'm not arguing so don't get stroppy with me or you can look for help elsewhere. 4 good 512MB sticks will indeed perform better than 2 1024MB sticks, but the fact of the matter is, using 4 sticks does induce extra latency. Three sticks is the worst because then they don't even run in Dual channel mode. That IS a hit on performance.
     
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    im gettin my 4th stick in 45min
     
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    Good good, that should see your performance back up then.
     

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