Patriot Dual Channel 2GB DDR 500 (PC 4000) Review - Testing it out
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For starters, for some reason my EPoX motherboard kept setting the timings by default to 3-4-5-8, which is incorrect. I saw an immediate speed increase when I set the timings accurately. Here is a quick look at CPU-Z that shows the SPD default timings for 200 MHz and 250 MHz.
Here is the memory after I corrected the motherboard’s default voltage at 200 MHz.
I began the process of overclocking the motherboard by adjusting the FSB and the core voltage of the CPU. Being that my test rig is using air cooling, I wasn’t able to really push the memory as far as it could go, but where I got was impressive all alone.
I was able to increase the FSB to 255 MHz, which brought the CPU from 2.2 GHz to approx 2.8 GHz. Then, I was able to adjust the memory timings (EPoX has great overclocking features in their BIOS). I was able to adjust the memory from 3-4-4-8 to 3-4-3-6 before I began to see any instability. I am quite certain that with a better cooling solution, I could have overclocked the whole rig even further. I got the best results when I overclocked the FSB and the memory together. Let’s take a look at the before and after performance benchmarks.
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