Any info on updates to fix KT400 w/ddr400?

[CamNeely]

If you read anandtech's review of the Soyo KT-400 board, they demonstrate that the KT400 chipset is actually faster with DDR333. On this board moreso than the others, the performance hit from 333 to 400 was staggering. So I tried my DDR400 at both speeds, and found these results to be accurate. Mem score pcmark@400: 2895 @333: 4006. My question: does anyone know if there will be a bios fix for this any time soon? I'm planning on going T-bred, so I'd like to run sync at 200, but not if this problem is not resolved. Thanks..

 

[mechBgon]

I don't think it's possible. Since the two busses run at different speeds in an asynchronous setting, there's bound to be extra latency as the northbridge tries to play middleman between two components that are not talking at the same speed. The same is true of nForce2, it performs best in synchronous operation, and the overhead allowed by quality DDR400 modules is best used by either tightening the RAM timings, or by overclocking in a synchronous setup.

 

[CamNeely]

Updated my post. I meant synchronous. At 333 and 400, I had the mem settings as fast as possible, with no problems.

 

[mechBgon]

Oh, gotcha. Yeah, I see what you mean: graphs Something sure is wrong there. I'm sure Soyo took note of the review and hopefully they take action. Otherwise you could always sell the board off and pick up something else (nForce2, KT400A).