overclocking my ram. some questions

[Dilly man 2]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146970
first of all that is my RAM.

now, i guess ive been reading and my timimg seem slow compared to others.
how much can i change the timings? they do have heatspreaders and should i go out and buy better heatspreaders or are these good?
mine are stock at 3-3-3-8
which i guess are slow....


help me put really quick?

-Joe

 

[Dilly man 2]

quietly waiting...

 

[jancz3rt]

Hey

Well first of all, check that the frequency you RAM is running at is 200Mhz (400Mhz DDR). The timings seem fast to me and I would not play with those. Let us know ok Some motherboards do not like certain types of RAM or some processors do not like two 1GB sticks. There are several problems you could be facing. My RAM is running at 2.5-3-3-7 but that's because I have two sticks of 512MB. These large memory sticks rarely run at the same timing although it is possible I would suspect for them to do so. I do not think the performance increase would be that big though....rather negligible

JAN

 

[Dilly man 2]

oh, for some reason ive been getting from people that the differences are noticable and whatnot.

i had my computer running for about 20minutes.
i saw no problems with anything.



when or how will i know my computer doesnt like something?


J0E

 

[jancz3rt]

Well

Simply said, there should be no need to play around with stuff given your computer specifications. You will know when something is wrong when you would get slag in games or slow performance in the OS (or too many errors).

JAN

 

[Dilly man 2]

well, it looks like ill have to wait a couple more days till i get my replacement psu, and still i dont know it my mobo is fried : /


I HATE NOT KNOWING IF MY STUFF WORKS OR NOT!