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Balerion · 08-17-2002, 06:46 PM

If your motherboard has a 1/5 divider like you say, then you might try upping your ram voltage to 2.6, 2.7, or maybe 2.8, and see how high you can go each time. If this works, I would definitely get some thermaltake heatspreaders. They will help prolong the life of your ram, since you'll be running it alot hotter.
When I was first getting my Epox up, I noticed that once I got to 160 and 165 my ram was getting REALLY hot to the touch, so I went out and bought a 10 buck set of ramsinks and heatspreaders, and now its just fine. Higher RAM voltages should allow you to take it up so you can get the PCI divider ot kick in.
If you still cant, try and remove some PCI devices, move up the FSB, then once you make sure the divider has set in, put the devices back in.

08-17-2002, 06:46 PM	#4
Balerion Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Traverse City, MI Posts: 10	If your motherboard has a 1/5 divider like you say, then you might try upping your ram voltage to 2.6, 2.7, or maybe 2.8, and see how high you can go each time. If this works, I would definitely get some thermaltake heatspreaders. They will help prolong the life of your ram, since you'll be running it alot hotter. When I was first getting my Epox up, I noticed that once I got to 160 and 165 my ram was getting REALLY hot to the touch, so I went out and bought a 10 buck set of ramsinks and heatspreaders, and now its just fine. Higher RAM voltages should allow you to take it up so you can get the PCI divider ot kick in. If you still cant, try and remove some PCI devices, move up the FSB, then once you make sure the divider has set in, put the devices back in.