NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI Technology Chipset Overclocking
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5.
Go to the
Driver Strength Settings
BIOS menu shown in Figure 14.
The Corsair TWIN2X2048-8500C5 memories can overclock further when
you lower the chip-select (
CS
), address (
MA
), and clock (
MCLK
) drive strength
settings. Drive strength defines how sharp the edge of a signal transition is.
Lowering the signal drive strength reduces noise injected to neighboring
signals and helps increase frequency.
Note:
If you use different memory types, you may discover other tricks and
optimizations by experimenting. For instance, raising the drive strength
may be more a more effective way to tune memory for low latency but
less effective for increasing frequency.
For example, OCZ Technology memories with EPP, lowering data (
MD
)
and
DQS
drive strengths by 0.75x produces higher overclocking results.
Figure 14. BIOS Drive Strength Setting for Memory
Overclocking
6.
Save BIOS settings and exit.
7.
Using NVIDIA nTune 5.0 in Windows, adjust
Reference Clock (HTT)
to
directly change memory frequency, shown in Figure 15.