RAM OC limits?

[EvilWiffles]

Ello,

 

I'm just wanting to know if there is a limit to how far I can push my cheap Kingston HyperX Blu 1333Mhz ram. I OC'd it to 1600Mhz and wanted to know if it'd be dangerous to the RAM to oc it to 1866.

[JoaoPRSousa]

It isnt dangerous, I think. Go for it, as I did

[harrynowl]

Dangerous? no (unless you're doing like 1.9v it's not going to explode).

 

A bit of a time waste and could take a while to test / put data at risk? Yes.

[EvilWiffles]

It isnt dangerous, I think. Go for it, as I did

Cool, what's the timings for 1866? Right now it's set to 9-9-9-24.

[WereCat]

Dont go over 1.6V - 1.65V and you should be fine. If your PC suddenly wont want to run reset your CMOS and try again. I OCd my 1600MHz to 2133MHz without touching volts (1.5V).

 

Cool, what's the timings for 1866? Right now it's set to 9-9-9-24.

 

Thats very good.

[BuntzenB]

Ello,

 

I'm just wanting to know if there is a limit to how far I can push my cheap Kingston HyperX Blu 1333Mhz ram. I OC'd it to 1600Mhz and wanted to know if it'd be dangerous to the RAM to oc it to 1866.

 

 

It isnt dangerous, I think. Go for it, as I did

 

Feel free to try it but make sure to do stability checks. I OCed my old 1333 ram to like 21whatever and it worked fine but then one day one of the DIMMs just died (the company was very nice about it and replaced it). So basically just be cautious. 

[EvilWiffles]

What do you guys use for stability checks?

[BuntzenB]

Cool, what's the timings for 1866? Right now it's set to 9-9-9-24.

That's not how timings work. Also as you OC the clocks go slower. If you OC to 1866 and then get your speeds back to 9-9-9-24 that's pretty good. (btw the CAS latency matters the most).

But generally as the RAM is faster in MHZ the timings go down, so you may have 1333 RAM that is "faster" than an 1866 pair. Also the MOBO will automatically bring the timings down as the MHZ goes up so get a stable MHZ then try to bring the timings down.

[BuntzenB]

What do you guys use for stability checks?

 this http://www.memtest86.com/

run it as a bootable and it will check your ram (UBUNTU and UBUNTU's GRUB loader has it built in)