Can I Trade-in f3-17600CL ?

[Oblivion]

The CR at 1T could cause problems with the tight timings, so may want to try running at 2T and see how that goes, as to the DRAM voltage the previous was the PIs at 2133 stock (yes/no?) so they required less at 1600 and these are rated 1.5, but may not be getting the full 1.5, which is why I suggested the slight rise with the three stick package.

ya the vdroop could be effecting it i suppose. Testing phase can be so tedious, its near impossible to replicate the problem in synthetic stress tests.

[Tradesman]

I hear ya, been there done that. Replicating a problem can be almost impossible, can try just raising the DRAM a bit, if it happens again a bit more, or same with the MC voltage

[Oblivion]

i tried 2n and still got a freeze at 1.55v . I set my timings back to stock except for the tras i left at 100.

Normally bad timings cause a bsod, but i get a unrecoverable freeze instead. no bsod.

my board does want to auto set timings in the 11's. So it could very well be the timing i guess.

[Tradesman]

Possibly, might drop ASUS a line and ask if they have any BIOS updates coming up,

[Oblivion]

Possibly, might drop ASUS a line and ask if they have any BIOS updates coming up,

already have the latest bios update.

I went ahead and dropped the timings back to stock 9-9-9-25 i put the command rate back to 1T. only gives me a 1ns improvement in benchmark but w/e. the trfc is 100. So far the system has been stable. I'm going to lower my dram voltage back to 1.51 and see if it holds. There is very little vdroop on dram voltages.

[Tradesman]

Looking good so far

[Oblivion]

now that i believe the ram is stable, I had an idea about the page file.

I made a 4gb ramdisk and set the page file to use that. Basically eliminating my virtual page file Muahahahaha

[Tradesman]

Good idea, can also redirect temp files to the RAMDrive as well as some primary apps

[Oblivion]

Good idea, can also redirect temp files to the RAMDrive as well as some primary apps

I set a small portion of the ram disk to browser cache as well.

[Tradesman]

Very good, what you might think about next would simply be to monitor DRAM usage which can give you an idea as to whether you can raise the size of the RAMDisk if you like and add more to it, they are fun to play with and can really boost speed

[Oblivion]

Very good, what you might think about next would simply be to monitor DRAM usage which can give you an idea as to whether you can raise the size of the RAMDisk if you like and add more to it, they are fun to play with and can really boost speed

most programs i would want to run on it are way to big, would be nice to get another tri channel kit in the future.

[Tradesman]

......and to think many were hesitant about wanting 8 let alone 16 or more GB just a couple years back, but I know the feeling, I'm looking to move at least one of my P67s to 32GB.....and in a couple months, X79 and 64

[Oblivion]

ran a benchmark on the ramdisk. man is that sweet or what

[Tradesman]

Swweeeeeettttttttt! Gotta love it!