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GA-EP45-UD3LR OC ing past 3.3 on 667 memory?

GA-EP45-UD3LR OC ing past 3.3 on 667 memory?
« on: July 16, 2010, 10:22:05 pm »
Lo guys Ive had my new Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3LR installed for 2 days now and have managed to get it oced at 3.3 ghz but I think my 667 MHZ PC 5300 memory is holding me back when ever I bump up the memory in the bios the system wont start or it will but it will crash? I need some help.

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Re: GA-EP45-UD3LR OC ing past 3.3 on 667 memory?
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2010, 10:53:16 pm »
Have you upped the memory voltage? Raised the northbridge voltage?
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Re: GA-EP45-UD3LR OC ing past 3.3 on 667 memory?
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2010, 12:24:55 am »
I havn't yet but im going to try that tonight man. Its been ages since I overclocked my chip and my last board was an old Asrock p35 board which didnt have a lot of OC ing features.

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Re: GA-EP45-UD3LR OC ing past 3.3 on 667 memory?
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2010, 08:08:04 am »
Things have moved on a lot since then as far as the O/Cing goes. It is much more complicated now. Just be glad that you dont have one of the X58 chipset board as far as that goes.
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Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy

Re: GA-EP45-UD3LR OC ing past 3.3 on 667 memory?
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2010, 08:10:03 pm »
Yeah I noticed  :o, there are a huge selection of options in the BIOS which I never had with my old Asrock P35 board. I tried upping the voltage and it would boot but wouldn't run stable at 3.4 ghz. Also I couldn't find the northbridge voltage option in the advanced settings in the bios?

I think either my Corsair PC5300 memory just wont do the job or I will need a new PSU, I have a 400 watt cheapo which I should really replace.

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Re: GA-EP45-UD3LR OC ing past 3.3 on 667 memory?
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2010, 08:14:36 pm »
One of the most underated but also most important components is the PSU. So many people spend time, money and effort getting together a good quality system and then just use the cheapest power supply they can lay their hands on.
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy