Hi everyone,
I recently built a KT7A-RAID based system (Athlon 1.3Ghz). It is currently not overclocked, but I have loaded the latest RAID and motherboard drivers. I ran Sisoft Sandra and I noticed that my memory benchmarks are very slow compared to other comparable Intel systems (somewhere around 375/400 for the non-multimedia memory test). Is this just a by-product of this motherboard and is there anyway to increase this?
I've already gone through and tweaked my BIOS to the max ... it is stable at the most aggressive settings, with one quirk. I recently brought the system in to my vendor. He said that my RAM was faulty and replaced it, putting it in DIMM 3. I had major stability problems from that point on. I put it in DIMM 1, which solved most of the problems ... but now I can't boot when I attempt to run it at 133Mhz FSB. Did he screw me by giving me lower quality RAM? Is there some way I can find out what kind of RAM I'm running?
Finally, I was wondering if there would be any benefit by flashing the BIOS with an upgrade. I'm currently running the retail version (don't have the version # handy). I've heard that this is a "dangerous" process though. Any tips, URL's, etc?
I recently built a KT7A-RAID based system (Athlon 1.3Ghz). It is currently not overclocked, but I have loaded the latest RAID and motherboard drivers. I ran Sisoft Sandra and I noticed that my memory benchmarks are very slow compared to other comparable Intel systems (somewhere around 375/400 for the non-multimedia memory test). Is this just a by-product of this motherboard and is there anyway to increase this?
I've already gone through and tweaked my BIOS to the max ... it is stable at the most aggressive settings, with one quirk. I recently brought the system in to my vendor. He said that my RAM was faulty and replaced it, putting it in DIMM 3. I had major stability problems from that point on. I put it in DIMM 1, which solved most of the problems ... but now I can't boot when I attempt to run it at 133Mhz FSB. Did he screw me by giving me lower quality RAM? Is there some way I can find out what kind of RAM I'm running?
Finally, I was wondering if there would be any benefit by flashing the BIOS with an upgrade. I'm currently running the retail version (don't have the version # handy). I've heard that this is a "dangerous" process though. Any tips, URL's, etc?
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