FSB:DRAM ratio?

[mentalcrisis00]

Hey all,

I'm looking at CPUz right now and it says my cpu is at 2.8 GHZ and 1066FSB, but I look at the memory it says DRAM Frequency - 533MHZ and FSB/DRAM ratio 1:2. I have the Bios set to auto and 10.5x266 but are these the correct settings for the ram? I have seen around that you should have the ratio set to 4:3 but I really have no idea.

 

[lxskllr]

Your settings look ok. I'm not sure about the ratio. Faster's generally better unless there's stability problems.

 

[mentalcrisis00]

well generally I have no idea about alot of these settings, I usually have an AMD chip which is not great for OCing unless you take drastic measures (I never had an opteron but I hear they're better overclockers). This new gigabyte board has more settings than I know what to do with so I just set everything to auto and hoped most of it was right. But the specs for my e7400 list the FSB at 1066 so i imagine that's true. I'll have to keep researching because I did want to get at least a 3.5GHZ OC from it when my new cooler comes in.

thanks for the confirmation on the stock settings though

-Ray

 

[lxskllr]

When you overclock, raise your fsb, and keep the ram on auto. When you have the cpu stable, play with the ram speed. There's a few different ways to do it, but generally you want the highest cpu speed, with high ram speed being secondary.