- Apr 8, 2004
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So I finally got around to overclocking my E8400 (E0). It runs great @ 3.7GHz, slightly undervolted to 1.2v (BIOS). Temps are around 38c idle, 54c full load (Orthos small FFTs).
My question is about the RAM. I'm running 4Gb of OCZ DDR-800 in dual channel. (And I can finally see all 4Gb now that I'm on Win7 x64, yay.) By default it runs with a 5:6 divider, which puts it at 988Mhz currently (494 x 2). But I keep seeing references to some magical benefit to running in synchronous mode instead, especially with C2Ds it seems.
So would it somehow benefit me to set the RAM to 1:1 and run it stock @ 800MHz (technically 824, but close enough)? It seems counter-intuitive to me that lowering the speed from 988 to 800 would be a good thing, especially with the CPU @ 3.7 and hungry for bandwidth. But since I don't really understand what the great benefit of synchronous mode consists of (despite searching) I can't really be sure how to evaluate the difference. Hence this post.
I'm not really concerned about RAM timings -- this is cheap stuff and I tend to just leave it at SPD. So that's not a factor to consider.
So, should I run it at 988 asynchronous, or 800 synchronous? Or some other setting I haven't even considered (like lowering the multiplier)?
Any thoughts appreciated.
My question is about the RAM. I'm running 4Gb of OCZ DDR-800 in dual channel. (And I can finally see all 4Gb now that I'm on Win7 x64, yay.) By default it runs with a 5:6 divider, which puts it at 988Mhz currently (494 x 2). But I keep seeing references to some magical benefit to running in synchronous mode instead, especially with C2Ds it seems.
So would it somehow benefit me to set the RAM to 1:1 and run it stock @ 800MHz (technically 824, but close enough)? It seems counter-intuitive to me that lowering the speed from 988 to 800 would be a good thing, especially with the CPU @ 3.7 and hungry for bandwidth. But since I don't really understand what the great benefit of synchronous mode consists of (despite searching) I can't really be sure how to evaluate the difference. Hence this post.
I'm not really concerned about RAM timings -- this is cheap stuff and I tend to just leave it at SPD. So that's not a factor to consider.
So, should I run it at 988 asynchronous, or 800 synchronous? Or some other setting I haven't even considered (like lowering the multiplier)?
Any thoughts appreciated.