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    Tips for overclocking my 7280-S1? Seems to be "underclocked"

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Se4nH4x, Feb 12, 2011.

  1. Se4nH4x

    Se4nH4x Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey guys,

    So I just got my Sager 7280-S1 from Xoticpc a few days ago and I ran CPU-Z and GPU-Z and I don't know if its just me, but it seems like the clock speed is lower than it should be? At least for the ram...I believe I purchased 1333 ram and it seems to be clocked at 666?

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    What do you guys think?

    If you recommend overclocking this, could you advise me on how to do so (in the safest manner possible)?

    Thanks.
     
    Se4nH4x, Feb 12, 2011
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    taken from an article about DDR RAM at Uncomplicating the Complicated | Hardware Secrets

    "DDR stands for Double Data Rate, meaning that memories from this category transfer two data chunks per clock cycle. Translation: they achieve double the performance of memories without this feature running at the same clock rate (namely SDRAM memories, which are not available for PCs anymore).

    Because of this feature, these memories are labeled with double the real maximum clock rate they can operate. For example, DDR2-800 memories work at 400 MHz, DDR2-1066 and DDR3-1066 memories work at 533 MHz, DDR3-1333 memories work 666.6 MHz and so on."
     
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  3. Se4nH4x

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    *doh* thank you.
     
    Se4nH4x, Feb 12, 2011
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