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Overclocking
I'm
really glad I choose to go with PC2-5300 because it has a max DDR bus
speed of 667MHz. That's a true Front Side Bus of about 333MHz. With the
help of the CPU:Memory ratio setting, I may be able to max out this
memory after all. Let's find out!
SiSoft
Sandra Memory Bench (higher score is better)
2:3 - 220/330MHz
At
a ration of 2:3, 220MHz was about all I could do and still keep the
system stable. At a ratio of 2:3, the DDR bus speed comes out to about
660MHz. This is just shy of the maximum rating of the DDR2 memory, but
I'm betting that the motherboard gave out before the memory did since we
are actually overclocking.
Out
of curiosity, I lowered the ratio to 3:4 and tried overclocking again.
3:4 - 250/333MHz
At
3:4, we actually hit the maximum rated speed of the Ballistix DDR2
memory. What was amazing was this was the highest this CPU has ever been
overclocked to. 3.5GHz is pretty dang good for a P4 2.8GHz CPU!
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