need help with overclocking CVF(990FX)+1866hmz+1090T

[Fallen-Angel]

@FiNAS I didn't say the result will blow up the performance, but as you mentioned you're interested in the 2-4% on performance boost, so am I. In this case I disagree with your statement, that it's meaningless to oc the RAM and that you wouldn't notice the difference/improvement. Look at the fps from Cinebench. I mean there is an improvement in ca. 6fps from 2000MHz NB -> 2770Mhz & 1600Mhz -> 2000Mhz RAM. (compared third and second lines) [OpenGL] or even just by setting the RAM freq higher (last 2 lines) gives us ca. 2fps more. I personally think it's a good improvement.

Nevertheless, everyone has his own opinion, and the actual discussion here goes in a wrong way. ^^

P.S.: I also think it's better to oc the CPU itself first and generally leave the NB and RAM alone, without any exp. of overclocking. But his RAM was tested at 1866Mhz, so there must be a profile in the BIOS, according to that RAM. It makes the whole thing easier.

[FiNAS]

we all know how picky this motherboard is with ram, and this is why I sugested not touching the ram clocks, and leave memory tweaking to the end.

[FireFlower]

Do not overclock HT-link speed. This just causes problems and has no real gains in performance. Just leave it at that 2000MHz.

Also when overclocking FX or Thubans with high vcores put a fan to blow air directly to VRM. They get very very hot and often cause crash eventhough cpu is still "cool" because VRM overheating protection kicks in.

[flearider]

well now i have my mem back from corsair .. yay ..

17.5x234 =4.1ghz 1.41v
mem corsair veng 1866@1872 1.5v
nb/cpu 1.3v
ht 2000

gonna leave it there for a while tho could go higher temps coming in at 40deg c idel 48 deg c load ..
on water cooling and gonna put in another tripple rad soon as i get time ..
this will alow more overclocking as vid card & cpu on same loop gets hot fast ..
vid card 5870 ...