What should i do?

[Blargh]

Ok i just built a new rig a few weeks ago

P4 1.8a
asus p4t533-c
512mb (2 256 sticks) of samsung original pc 800 rdram
enermax whisper 350 watt psu
thermaltake volcano 7+ hsf
toshiba dvd
phillips 24x10x32 cdr
18gb and 60 gb 7200 rpm hds
gf4 ti 4400 gainward golden sample 128mb ddr
sound blaster live 5.1 xgamer

Ok now oridingall i had hoped to oc this system to 2.4ghz pc 1066 with the 133/33 fsb at 4x settings...... now i can get everything to work rock solid stable at 2.4ghz and pc 800 (3x multiplier) at 1.525vcore. But if i try to set it to 4x for pc 1066 i cant get it stable at any vcore tho it lasted longer at 1.575,1.6,1.625 vcore (1 hour prime 95) then any other vcore (less then 10 min prime 95), althought it WOULD post and load windows at every vcore from 1.525 up.

Now my question is.... should i just go out and buy some pc1066 kingston rdram? Should i go and buy into a ddr setup with an asus p4b533-v and some corsair pc3200 ddr? What kind of performance increase over what i have would i get with either setup? Does it justify the $300(rdram)-350 (ddr setup) it would cost?


Right now im trying to see if i can get the rig stable at 138/34 with the 3x multiplier for 2.48ghz and pc 830...... been running prime95 for about 2 hours now ... lookin good...

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Personally I don't think it would be an equitable upgrade for price/performance ratio. How is your case cooling? Perhaps putting a fan on the RDRAM and better air flow through the case would keep it cool enough to see 1066.

 

[Blargh]

yeah but thats just it... my system IS cool. Thats why im so confused as to what the problem could be.

I have a 80mm thermaltake smart fan as an intake ... generally runs at around 3500rpms, and 2 80mm panaflow fans for exhaust, not to mention the psus exhaust fans (90mm internal fan that draws air from the inside of the case into the psu and an 80mm fan that blows it out of the psu) . Asus pc probe (and the bios monitor) show my cpu at arounf 35C idle/44C load and my mobo temp genreally never goes above 33C. So i doubt that its heat thats causing the problems here. Anyway how would i put a fan on them anyway? As the only active memory cooling kits ive seen have been for ddr without heat spreaders.....

 

[DAPUNISHER]

this might angle enough to put air directly on the memory. You can call Ian and ask him. I would atleast investigate the extra cooling option since I see many hitting 1066 with your memory

 

[Blargh]

hm.... that might be promising..... tho if i cant mount it to like my drive cage it might not be too usefull, cause mounting it on the pci retention screws wont put it very close to my ram. Also my rams banks arent all in one spot on the mobo, theres 2 horizontal above the cpu and 2 vertical on the right hand side of the cpu... so even if i could set this up i could only cool off one of my 2 rimms (1 in each bank area as reccomened by the manual).

Yeah i too heard that most ppl get pc1066 easily with this ram... thats why i bought it. If i had known id have this much trouble getting it to work i woulda spent the extra $100 then to get the kingston pc 1066 instead.... :/

 

[Blargh]

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