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OCZ memory and performance overclocking
I was curious about other expert opinions out there. I am old school, been building computers and acessories since my first TI99-4A and 286sx16 with 2 meg of ram and a 40 meg harddrive...lol.
Here is my question. I have always built systems at specs in the past SEVERAL years. Now I know when you are upping performance, processors are pretty much clocked at their max rates for stable oeration. Most everyone that I have talked to is saying that memory overclocking is the new "speed boost" but It MUST be done in small baby steps. I have done tons of research on memory overclocking, and I already know the downsides and dangers. I also know that if you ARE going to overclock, you can get memory that is higher rated than the board supports (i.e. the board will WORK with the memory, but is not able to run the memory at full speed of the mem chip) And from there, most gamers are going into the BIOS and changing the Latency, and other settings to increase the chips, as well as changing memory chip voltages. My question is how many people here have actually SUCEEDED in overclocking memory, and actually able to SEE a difference in game performance, WITHOUT the problems of freezes and game crashes? The memory chips that I am looking at specifically are OCZ brand, platinum edition, with CL2 rating, and a 2.5 operating voltage. I don't have the spec sheet in front of me, but if I recall the settings properly it is a 2-5-5-15. Any help out there?...
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