BIOS settins on the DFI Lan Party

[austin316]

I just got a new pc put together, and I have no idea what settings I need on the bios to set everything to the correct//normal speeds.

Components:

420 Watt PS
DFI Lan Party 250gb
Athlon 64 3000+ 754 Socket
Corsair 3200 512MB RAM (The platinum edition or what not).
ATI 9700 PRO
7200RPM 120GB Seagate


Also, what program do I use to check my components (that they are the correct clock speed) and benchmark them against where they should be? sandra?

One more thing, my RAM stick, the heat spreader is not fully closed. It is just a little too small for the ram, is this ok?

 

[joelslaw]

as far a clock speeds go, the defaults are usually correct. If you want to know specifics you can usually find reviews where they've taken a pass through the bios, and a lot of times they give specifics. I would look, but you didn't actually say what board you have ("lan party" is a line of boards, not a specific model)

 

[austin316]

I have this one.

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-136-147&amp;depa=0">DFI "LANPARTY UT nF3 250Gb" NVIDIA nForce3 250GB Chipset Motherboard For AMD Socket 754 CPU -RETAIL
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[LED]

GoHere or check over Here

 

[austin316]

thanks for the help, but I'm still a little confused. these tell me what the options are, not what I should set them at.

For example, like what my DRAM frequency should be or my multiplier settings for my cpu.

 

[LED]

The CPU should be set at default multiplier(11? ) and will not go any higher but canl go lower if you are OCing the memory...set the Dram settings to 200 (1:1) and creep up if you plan on OCing which I do not give advice on because of so many Peeps having mishaps by mis interpretation

 

[imported_Computer MAn]

If you are not OCing just leave everything at auto. The multi is 10x and set the dram to 200