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[dirtydutty]

After reading your guides on ram OCing which were very good, I was reading other peoples problems and jsut finding that like on my MOBO gigabyte ga-p31-ds3l that when talkign about ratios like fsb:ram and trying to get the fsb to match the ram like 400:400 even I got confused at frst. On my MOBO I could only find a section which was to alter (SPD) cpu host frequency. So it was sat at 4.00 so I lowered it to 2.00 which according to where ddr2 mhz was "in grey" 800 then another figure which had now change to 200mhz or so. Obviously after raising the fsb to 370 the ddr2 figures look like "greyed out" 800 and 760 so now my 2140 intel runs at 3.03ghz and I overvolted the ram by 0.1v anything above 750 and it kept crashing. But after all of this I assume that that (spd) i lowered is the fsb:ram ratio but just called something different on my motherboard , and doesnt come up on my screen as fsb and ram clocks and so on. So am I right that they are the same but have different names or have I done something different I asume not as my computer has not bown up

2140@3.03ghz
crucial ddr2 800mhz (dont know how to slacken timings still working that out)
gigabyte ga-p31-ds3l
artic pro cooler 7
running under full load on prime95 61-63C

[Iron Monkey]

Im sorry but i dont know your board but all the info you need will be in the manual

[dirtydutty]

just seemed odd that everyone talks about fsb:ram ratio but its not on my board in those terms thats all really but apart from that i have overclocked mine with no trouble just need to sort some bette colling out now then fiddle with the ram a bit

[VeoDigital]

fsb:ram ratio is just a general term, it can be called different names on different motherboards.