Made some progress this weekend with my TeamGroup Cronus Micron. Was able to push the modules up to 280MHz (3-3-3-8 timings). I did a couple of things. First, I switched to the 704-2BTA BIOS which worked well with my old Crucial Ballistix. Second, I reversed the modules, putting the one that was in Slot-1 in Slot-3 and vice versa. I needed 2.9v to run at 280 and 2.8v at 275. I might be able to clock the modules higher. But I don't want to raise VDimm any more. For everyday use, I still prefer using a divider and running the sticks at 2.5-2.6v. I think they will last longer that way.
Update: The RAM running at 280 failed dual-Prime within minutes. But 275 was no problem.
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The reason I run the custom Prime test is so I can allocate the amount of memory used. That's the only setting I change. When I open the custom setting, it says 1790 for memory in use. I change it to 800 for each instance. This gives me enough memory to do other things while running dual-Prime.
Yes, I always run blend.
I allocate the amount of RAM for each instance mainly to avoid having to use the page file. I hope that makes sense.
Here's another way of explaining it. Prime was mainly designed for single-core CPU's. With dual-core chips, people run two instances. if you over-use physical memory, then Windows will of course start accessing the page file. To avoid this, I just take the "1790" of available memory and roughly divide it in half, allocating 800MB to each instance.
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