Overclocking RAM

[ChrisUlrich]

The ram in my signature... want to OC a tad. But what the signs of it overheating and clearly have it turned up to high.

Anyone know what my motherboard and ram could be overclocked too?

 

[Geoff]

The most obvious sign will be instability, you will probably receive a lot of BSOD's and crashes due to memory.

But out of curiosity, why do you want to overclock just your RAM? Usually you overclock it in conjunction with your CPU.

 

[ChrisUlrich]

In my bios it has them as two seperate functions.

I just raised my DRAM from Auto to DDR800 since I think it was running at PC5300.

I also upped my CPU Frequency to 300 to get a 2.80ghz speed and the PC reset twice and now its back to normal.

 

[Cromewell]

I just raised my DRAM from Auto to DDR800 since I think it was running at PC5300.

I also upped my CPU Frequency to 300 to get a 2.80ghz speed and the PC reset twice and now its back to normal.

When you increased the CPU frequency from 266MHz to 300 you overlocked the RAM to DDR-900. You probably need to increase the voltage for it to be stable.