I have 2 questions here. So say these are my CPU OC settings -
What should by Load Line Calibration be set to? I have an Asus Sabertooth R2.0 btw.
Second question is about RAM overclocking. Is it as simple as setting it to a higher frequency? Or do I have to play with voltages as well? I have 2x4GB of G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 1866MHz CL9. I hear freq is more important than latency for games so I have to go say CL10 I don't really care.
So I was just messing around and I managed to get my memory clock to 2136. I managed to do this by changing the bus speed to 228MHz. Just changing the RAM voltage and upping the clock would make it to where I couldn't even boot.
Generally overclocking RAM requires you to overclock the memory controller for it to be stable. Test your RAM every time you are able to boot into windows using Mem Test it's a windows based memory testing program that can Dynamically test your RAM in a windows environment. It may detect problems that the boot loader Memory diagnostic or Memtest86+ may miss. If it's unstable but you are able to boot into windows successfully go ahead and bump up the secondary and tertiary timings first before changing your CAS Latency. It's sort of hit or miss a lot of the times overclocking RAM but it's the best way to get the most out of your system if you like tweaking stuff.
Yeah that's the one. It works really good for testing windows environment stability of RAM in general. Although, it does use a lot of CPU so I wouldn't run a bunch of programs in the background with it.
I've had a clean pass of Memtest86+ 5.0RC1 outside of windows but failled after 15 minutes of Mem Test in windows. It just goes to show that not every memory test is created equal. Memtest86+ 5.0RC1 is really good for testing general system stability outside of Windows including your RAM stability. Mem Test inside windows however will generally be a better representation of stability within windows.
So basically this is just a stability test for your memory?
Other than the slight gaming performance increase, what other applications will I see an improvement in?
Its basically a Stability test for memory, it pretty much does similar tests to Memtest86+ except for you are within windows doing the testing and its testing the memory all at once not in 2GB blocks. Typically the best improvement you will get from higher RAM speed with low latency is in CPU rendering or Online video streaming where you are encoding video on the fly as you are recording.
So would higher RAM speeds benenfit Dxtory recording?
Possibly but I don't personally have much experience with Dxtory as a recording software. As far as I am aware, with that particular set of recording software it's actually lighter on CPU and GPU requirements. Much less than say that god awfull piece of software called Fraps.