Hi Chaps,

Following on from my PSU post, I went and bought a new one, really glad I did, just shows how fooked my old one was, system is running so quiet now no problems I purchased a 450w item which I think will be fine for my needs, the old 300w unit has deffo seen better days! lol Also, gave the system a good clean and hoover out, got rid of loads of dust, lol also cleaned the cpu fan out, system is running cooler now I noticed too!

Also, today whilst I was in my local computer shop I decided to enquire about another stick of memory I did run 1 x 512MB DDR 400 memory and I bought another. Installed and running fine, now at 1GB of ram Anyway, the main point of this thread, the memory speed is currently set at 333Mhz, I've never clocked a machine before and just wonderd if it's worth doing and if I am getting th most performance out of the ram? Don't get me wrong the machine is flying now, noticed performance gains already (although initial booting of XP seems to take slightly longer )

Anyway, let me know your thoughts chaps

 

333mhz?

My old shitty PC ran a 670mhz processor! What chip you running?

I haven't actually ever overclocked a CPU, but to be honest, the advancements you'd get doing on a 333mhz is gonna be minimal at best!

If you can find out what socket your motherboard has, you might be able to source a P3 chip for it? I have a P3 (650mhz) mobo here and I was gona build it up and over clock it to 1000mhz, but got pissed off buying shonky used PC bits and bought a non-shonky used PC instead Still for Ł200 I got a nice Dell with a 2800mhz Pentium 4 CPU, 1.5gb ram and a biggish HDD

 

No mate, your confused..I'm not talking about my cpu, i'm talking about the speed of my ram I run an AMD Sempron 2.4Ghz chip...does the job nicely...

I was un aware you could do anything with the ram chips but I told the bloke in the shop the old chip was running at 333 and the new memory was a ddr 400 chip...Said it'd not be a prob and he could clock it anyway if not. Well on inspecting my existing chip it is a ddr400 also, just running at 333...Anyway like I said never worried about ram before so just wanted someone who has some greater knowledge on the subject to offer thier advice

 

You can overclock your CPU and your memory in your bios, press del or F2 key on initial power up. But be warned, like upping the boost on a car, it needs to be kept cool. If your cpu fan is designed for a 2.4 leave it well alone.

 

Dan, yep, aware of how I can do it...and wouldn't touch the cpu speed anyway But do you think my memory is running to its potential being ddr400?

 

Do game's not play well ? Are multiple applications slow opening / closing ? Personally I think it's fine

 

It's not a gaming machine..never get the chance for games on the ps2 let alone the pc! lol It is however my multimedia machine which is used for streaming / recording high quality music, no problems before I upgraded anyway just a bit of an impulse buy I guess Wanted to up it for a while anyway...

OK, i'll leave it while its running well

 

Ahhhhhhhhh....... Thought you was talking CPU speed

 

The topic title kinda gives it away mate

 

Thrush don't read the titles, he just let's his fingers flow over the keyboard and let his inner thoughts come through

 

Oi you can shut the fook up

I think the word is...... PWN3D

 

why is the memory set to 333? did the pc do it? if so there is no point overclocking the ram if you dont overclock the cpu, but then u can run into stability issues if the motherboard cant take it

hth

 

I took it to the shop to get upgraded a few months back, had new mobo, cpu, memory, that's obviously what they set it too.

I'm not going to worry about it, all running well and good

 

You will need to go in the bios and set the ram to DDR 400, if you have 2x 512, which are DDR400's they should run in Dual channel mode at DDR 400.

 

will only run dual channel if they are a matched pair, and considering they were brouht seperatly i doubt they are.................... maybe rong tho

 

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No they are not


Yes.

 

I have always had better responses by clocking the CPU and keeping the RAM normal and cool. I am a very strong believer in Software related speed and find a format/Re-ghost every 3 months keeps my baby at full speed.
You would be suprised.

I have never been sucessfull clocking RAM with 3 different boards and chipsets. I useually get crashing when upping the RAM.


BTW How you doing Adam??

 

Lee- yea, i've already decided i'm going to leave alone anyway...fooking monitor is plaing up now....either that or the card

Yea, i'm good mate, and you?

 

should really use an air duster (can of compressed gas) to remove the dust, then use a hoover to catch it in the air.
hoovers and dust will create static and if you go to close to any static sensative device it wont like it much ..

 

Eagle, yup, I use the air duster at work, aint got one at home tho! lol But do have a static clip to wear tho

 

I normally leave the 3 pin mains plug connected to the wall with the plug off, as the system will still be earthed to discharge any static.

 

I use the compressor at work to blow out all the dust

I have got some can's of Katun Air Spray indoors tho