A8N- SLI Deluxe Memory issue?

[Lairans]

I am sure that this issue is not alltogether uncommon but you fellas seem to have seen everything before so I thought I may post this question here.

I have an A8N -Sli Delux board that is paired with my 3000+ (Winchester). I can push the chip to about 2500mhz on air but the trouble is that my ram will not come anywhere near its STOCK speeds. I have to set the ram speeds to "Auto" and let the board clock the ram down to something like cas 2.5 and around 180mhz ( I believe it is clocking the ram down to DDR 266.)

The ram I am using is Crucial Ballistix pc3200 (2x512). Does this sound like the fault of the memory, the bios, the motherboard, the chip? I have heard that the Wini cores have some trouble with low latency ram but I am beginning to draw a complete blank. Anytime I set the timings even slightly lower than the super relaxed settings the "Auto" mode sets the ram at, there is a stall at post. ANY ideas would be entirely and completely appreciated!

 

[Jazic]

I have two sticks of OCZ sticks stock speed of 400Mhz, I can get em up to 533Mhz solid at 2.5-3-3-7-2T. Could prolly push em higher but I'm satisfied...

Not sure whats causing your problems... try setting your memory settings to Manual and 400Mhz where you adjust your timings. I know you've prolly already done that but no problems with it here.

 

[Lairans]

I suppose there is a supposed 1T problem, but I really don't think I am using the 1T timing.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

And the 1T problem is only with ramspeeds over 245mhz. With the auto setting it won't let you get that high. I would test each stick individually you may have 1 bum stick.

 

[Lairans]

I am beginning to thing that its my hyper transport multiplier. The higher it is, the more relaxed my memory timings would have to be. Is there any kind of multiplier "rule of thumb" that I am missing?

 

[GuitarDaddy]

HTT x HT multi = HT speed 200x5=1000

You should always keep it <=1000

When overclocking you should always drop HT multi to 4x, if you raise HTT past 250mhz drop it to 3x

 

[qbackin]

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
HTT x HT multi = HT speed 200x5=1000

You should always keep it <=1000

When overclocking you should always drop HT multi to 4x, if you raise HTT past 250mhz drop it to 3x

Very nice GuitarDaddy, you need to post in my thread lol.
You could probly help