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Going from a 955 to a 960T or 1090 is a waste of time and money. Overclock that thing. 1.5V is nothing for everyday use. If you have 1333 memory, unless you jump up to atleast 1866 is a waste too. That is if you can get the Phenom II memory controller to run stable at 1866.

Or get a AM3+ board and find a FX 6100 cheap and overclock the hell out of it.
 
StrangleHold said:
Going from a 955 to a 960T or 1090 is a waste of time and money. Overclock that thing. 1.5V is nothing for everyday use. If you have 1333 memory, unless you jump up to atleast 1866 is a waste too. That is if you can get the Phenom II memory controller to run stable at 1866.

Or get a AM3+ board and find a FX 6100 cheap and overclock the hell out of it.
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well the memory was because he was going to replace his 4x1gb sticks, and the board and cpu and all would cost a lot more with os too
 
jonnyp11 said:
well the memory was because he was going to replace his 4x1gb sticks, and the board and cpu and all would cost a lot more with os too
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What have I told you about quoting/questioning me? You know nothing but what other people have said. I read the whole thread.
 
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well the memory was because he was going to replace his 4x1gb sticks, and the board and cpu and all would cost a lot more with os too
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He is actually right. it looks like while BF3 is running my RAM is maxing out. If I decide to replace it with 8gb, I wanted to get something better. Building again, while it would give me better performance is out of my budget currently.
 
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He is actually right. it looks like while BF3 is running my RAM is maxing out. If I decide to replace it with 8gb, I wanted to get something better. Building again, while it would give me better performance is out of my budget currently.
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What I said was (Or you could) I said go for 1866.
 
I was hoping to get the ram that I linked OC'd to 1800 fro 1600. Is there a big difference that I am missing between 1800 and 1866?
 
Well 1800 is kinda of a odd ball speed. But sure some 1600 can clock to 1800 with a voltage jump and timing increase. You can get some good 1600 for 50 bucks but 1866 will run around 70 bucks. For using it maybe in a upgrade later I would go with 1866, Zambezi supports 1866 by default. From what I understand Piledriver will support 2133.
 
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Ok thanks for the explanation. The only problem that I have is that my motherboard supports 1800 max. Do you think that I would have any trouble running it at 1800 instead of 1866 until I find the money for a new build?

This look better?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233142

You mentioned a few posts ago that 1.5v was no problem. What is the max that you think I can take it for 24/7 use. Most of the forums that I checked were saying that 1.5v was too high for the average user.
 
On Asus site it has 1866 on the qualified list PDF. But I have no idea if the board has a 1866 Divider. But yeah sure 1866 will run a 1800 or 1600 too. 1.5 would be fine as long as your temps stay within reason under load.
 
So it does. Is the 1866 divider something that is hardware based or is it something that a BIOS update could change? I have never heard of it before so any information or links would be appreciated. I didn't find anything helpful when I searched for it. Thanks for the help.
 
In your bios it would either have a 1866 or 933 divider for the memory. 1600 would be that or 800 and so on. The memory real speed is really just half of the rated speed. 1866 really runs a 933mhz/ 1600 runs at 800/1333 runs at 666. Depends on the bios, some have it one way, other have it the other way. Thats where DDR comes in Double Data Rate.
 
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Ah right. I have a few options for RAM speed. 1066/1333/1600/1800. So I am guessing that I have no hopes for getting 1866 on this motherboard. Oh well 1800 will be fine for what I need.
 
Well you can set it to 1800 and raise you bus some to get it to 1866. But that bumps up your HT speed to. Alittle harder to overclock adjusting you X/Bus and HT speed and voltages. But like I said 1866 will run at 1800 or 1600 just fine. Its up to you if the price difference is worth it.

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Cant remember if I said it before or not, But a Phenom II has a hard time running over 1600 anyway unless you jack up the CPU memory controller voltage.
 
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Alright I did a lot of overclocking yesterday and the best that I could get was 3.9GHz (200 x 19.5) at 1.55v. My temps max out at 51c in Prime95 and are usually around 48c while gaming. I tried to get it stable at 4GHz but I would need more than 1.6v to get it stable.

I was reading around and I was finding that people were changing the HT clock when over clocking. What does that do?
 
Pretty good temps running at 1.55V. Overclocking the HT just has minimal effects on performance. Plus doing that you will have to deal with memory/CPUNB/HT and L3 cache speed and voltage.
 
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