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Looking for great RAM OC'ing advice/tips/articles

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I've been searching for a while and I haven't really found any great articles on RAM OC'ing that have been updated for Ivy Bridge, maybe I'm just not looking in the right places or something. I've got two sticks of Corsair Vengeance 4GB (8GB in total) of DDR3 2133 mhz 11-11-11-27, I think the IC is samsung (from what I gathered through my own searches, but I'm not sure). I've OC'd the timings to 9-12-12-21, but I am not sure if it's stable, efficient, or how much further I can push it. Any advice would be great. Thanks!

Link to my RAM: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ls_o00_s00_i00
 
Woah, the LOWER the numbers, the faster.Not higher. So were the two 12's required for post?
 
Here's a great guide for overclocking in general; memory overclocking affects the entire system. For a really stable system you want to "isolate" the RAM overclocking from the CPU overclock, this article explains that concept.

http://www.techreaction.net/2010/09/07/3-step-overclocking-guide-bloomfield-and-gulftown/

And for RAM overclocking, per se,
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/152

There aren't any great programs to test overclocking for OS X. Geekbench on 64 bit will find things pretty quickly--it has a continuous mode. But the hardcore overclocking programs are all Windoze based. I like OCCT because it bundles temp monitoring with the ability to run stress tests. Other popular stressing programs are Linx and Prime95. Memtest+ is a good, rigorous public domain program for testing memory, it requires a USB boot stick, so a bit of a hassle.
 
Ubuntu and most Linux distros have MemTest+ included when the system is installed, if you are in fact running a Linux OS.
 
what about this Prime95 version for OS X?
 
what about this Prime95 version for OS X?

Yeap, probably fine for most folks. And it does run in the preferred OS :) THere are a few advantages to setting up your overclock in Windows though....the Blue Screen of Death does give you some useful, if somewhat cryptic, error messages. (google the BSOD code you get for guides to interpreting lol). Also some of the available programs will provide hardware monitoring---key if you are doing a long term stability test unattended. OCCT even lets you specify what temps to halt the program... as well as logging temps and voltages for the run. And OCCT is free as well. That said, my machine was Prime95 stable for 24 hours, but OCCT crashed it in 8 1/2 minutes before I tweaked things.

I wanted a very rigorously stable machine....So I've had uptimes of greater than 21 days since building in May of this year.
 
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