Spread Sprectrum ARRRGH!!!!

[SulSeeker]

Been woking with this MSI K9N Ultra SLI since I got it... and while I was getting decent CPU overclocks, the memory has always been WAY underclocked and I could never figure out why till tonight.

Found these three settings enabled in the bios...

CPU/LDT Spread Sprectrun
PCIE Spread Sprectrum
SATA Spread Sprectrum

I Disabled them, and instally nailed 2.8 GHZ on air at a 1.425vcore instead of 2.75 air 1.525vcore... but the winner was mem speed going from DDR2-612 to DDR2-800 (FINALLY!!!)

It even hit 2.64GHZ with the ram @ DDR2-880 before I got memory errors!!!

Finally, Finally, Finally I'm extremely pleased with this system.

 

[scwam]

What the hell does spread spectrum do?

 

[SulSeeker]

Taken from Adrian's Rojak Pot

It reduces EMI from your computer... but it limits overclocking. The link gives a more defined answer.

 

[joemama]

Taken from Adrian's Rojak Pot

It reduces EMI from your computer... but it limits overclocking. The link gives a more defined answer.

In other words..pretty useless.

 

[w1retap]

If you would have RTFM, it says right in there in the overclocking section to *Disable Spread Spectrum* before doing any overclocking. lol

uhh, but wait.. why do you keep saying DDR-400, when you are using DDR2-800.

 

[SulSeeker]

CPUZ says 400mhz

I figured people could do the conversion in their head... edited.

If you would have RTFM...

My bad for not reading it... only really opened it to see where the case connections go.

 

[9mmx19]

Taken from Adrian's Rojak Pot

It reduces EMI from your computer... but it limits overclocking. The link gives a more defined answer.

Ooooh interesting. I was wondering what the hell this was.