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MSI K8N Neo2 Plantium
Athlon 64 3500+ S939
2 x 512MB Crucial Balistix PC3200 (rated for 2-2-2-6)
eVGA Geforce 6800 Ultra
Western Digital 74GB 10,000RPM Raptor
Antec 480W TrueBlue
If I just use the default timings and everything, my computer works fine. However, I go into my BIOS and notice that my RAM is running at 166MHz with unspecified latencies (it just says "auto") and 2T (I don't know what this means - does it have something to do with single/dual channel?). I tell it to set the maximum speed to 200MHz (the highest option) instead of "auto", and save and exit, and it is now running at 200MHz but my 3D mark score went down for some reason. After this I tried setting it to "aggressive timings", whatever that means, and I set the latencies to something somewhat decent instead of auto (like 2-3-3-8) and the system won't even boot up. I figured out how to reset the CMOS and did that, and tried again increasing the voltage to 2.7 but it still would not boot up, even to the BIOS. I had to reset the CMOS again. I have adequate cooling - a workstation tower aluminum case with 3 fans, not including the 2 on the power supply. Is one of my memory sticks defective, or am I doing something ignorant? I'm pretty sure I'm not pushing it beyond what it's supposed to operate at, so I'm not damaging anything when it won't run am I? Also, if you could tell me how to overclock my CPU with this motherboard I would appreciate it, I tried and couldn't figure it out. I couldn't see any way to control the clock frequency directly.
Also, since I'm new at this I might be misusing termonology. Please correct me if I am.
MSI K8N Neo2 Plantium
Athlon 64 3500+ S939
2 x 512MB Crucial Balistix PC3200 (rated for 2-2-2-6)
eVGA Geforce 6800 Ultra
Western Digital 74GB 10,000RPM Raptor
Antec 480W TrueBlue
If I just use the default timings and everything, my computer works fine. However, I go into my BIOS and notice that my RAM is running at 166MHz with unspecified latencies (it just says "auto") and 2T (I don't know what this means - does it have something to do with single/dual channel?). I tell it to set the maximum speed to 200MHz (the highest option) instead of "auto", and save and exit, and it is now running at 200MHz but my 3D mark score went down for some reason. After this I tried setting it to "aggressive timings", whatever that means, and I set the latencies to something somewhat decent instead of auto (like 2-3-3-8) and the system won't even boot up. I figured out how to reset the CMOS and did that, and tried again increasing the voltage to 2.7 but it still would not boot up, even to the BIOS. I had to reset the CMOS again. I have adequate cooling - a workstation tower aluminum case with 3 fans, not including the 2 on the power supply. Is one of my memory sticks defective, or am I doing something ignorant? I'm pretty sure I'm not pushing it beyond what it's supposed to operate at, so I'm not damaging anything when it won't run am I? Also, if you could tell me how to overclock my CPU with this motherboard I would appreciate it, I tried and couldn't figure it out. I couldn't see any way to control the clock frequency directly.
Also, since I'm new at this I might be misusing termonology. Please correct me if I am.
