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Different Brand RAM and my OC
Hello :)
I have some OCZ DDR3 Platinum 2x2gb 1333Mhz installed on my Asus M4N98TD at the moment. I also have 2x2GB AData DDR3 1333Mhz RAM stashed away from when I was having some POST problems with this build and wanted new RAM to test.
I've overclocked my AM3 965 to 3.8Ghz.
I tried to add the AData RAM, but I can't get the board to POST. I know I can manually change the timings to be the same, and will have to since the OCZ is CAS 9 and the AData is CAS 9. Using the FSB to overclock affects all the hardware as far as I know, so reducing the OC on the FSB should lead to less stress on the other hardware, allowing the multiplier to OC the CPU alone right?
I was going to use the multiplier more to get to my OC target of 3.8Ghz. at the moment, I increased the mulitplier from stock 17 to 17.5 and the FSB is doing the rest.
If I rely more on the multiplier, and manually force the timings of the RAM, am I likely to get POST with the 8GB of RAM installed? Or should I just leave everything alone and keep the 4GB? I thought I could get some advice before starting