MOVED: P7N SLI Platinum Mobo Memory overclock

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Quote from: kourosh on 19-November-08, 15:23:58
that is even better for an air cool,    by the way did you increase the memory freq manually or it was increased as you increased fsb?? ??? cheers
Once again a slight manual tweak on the FSB and Memory settings and I can now getting it stable running at 3.66Ghz (Air Cooled)
Temps 37c idle to 46c running UT3 (running for about an hour)
I'm running the Memory Voltage at 2.10v, everything is stable no problems, no crashes or BSOD,
The OCZ SLI Edition Memoryboards seems to handling it well..
Memory is clocked at 966Mhz, this seems to be the highest I can take it, any higher and Quake3 Demo locks and it says driver fault..
This seems to be the most stable overclocking setting I can reach so far..
Maybe a increase on the CPU or FSB,NB voltages might gain me a few more higher freq settings..
BIOS Settings
And from 764fps on Q3 Demo Test at 1280x1024 running at 3.54Ghz
To   796.9 fps  at the same Screen Res running at 3.66Ghz 
Regards
NC.... 
Windows Vista 64 Ultimate
Motherboard - MSI P7N SLI Platinum
CPU - Core2Duo E8500 + Cooler - Arctic Pro 7
Graphics - 2 X MSI 8800GT (SLI)
Memory - 2 x 4Gb DDR 2 PC6400 OCZ SLI Edition
Antec Nine Hundred Case [4 Fans]
LG x22 DVD Writer (Lightscribe) SATA
2 x Samsung Spinpoint SATA Hard Drives 100Gb/250GB
PSU - Cosair 650w TX
Fav Game - Call of Duty 4 (yeah bring it on and kick my ass if you see me on there)

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