I recently purchased an Intel E8400 which surprisingly the FAQ on memory is based. Before I ask my question here's a list of some system specs I'm fairly certain pertain to my issue.
CPU: Intel 8400
System Board : GA-P35-DS3L rev2 (BIOS rev. F9b newest)
System Memory : G-Skill PC2-8500 2gigbytes Dual Channel 2x1gig (Part# F2-8500CL5D-2GBPK)
OS: Windows XP SP2 32bit
I read this in the FAQ;
"Let's take an E8400 Wolfdale dual-core, shall we? It has:
a multiplier of 9x
a FSB of 1333mhz
a speed of 3ghz.
Now, 1333x9 is 12ghz, which is definitely not the speed of your CPU (sorry)
To get the actually speed of the chip, divide the FSB by four.
1333mhz/4 = 333mhz.
Now, let's try again:
9x333=3.0ghz (2997mhz if you're picky)
So you need to use DDR2-667 RAM with this CPU at least. (667/2 = 333) "
Now I don't have any formal education with hardware, honestly my only experience is from watching my father tinker with computers. According to this my cpu/system board setup should be able to use my memory to its full capacity.
Now, right here is where I could be completely wrong and the rest of what I'm about to say is worthless but here is the actual problem.
Looking at CPU-Z it reports that my individual sticks of memory have a max bandwidth of PC2-6400 (400mhz) and in the timings table under EPP#1 it rates the frequency at 533mhz at the timings and voltages listed on the sticker on the memory its self. Additionally CPU-Z under the Memory tab lists the memory as single channel which made me double check whether or not I installed my ram in the correct slots and they are. Why would CPU-Z list the memory like this?
There's just so many conflicting numbers I've become overwhelmed please help me out.
CPU: Intel 8400
System Board : GA-P35-DS3L rev2 (BIOS rev. F9b newest)
System Memory : G-Skill PC2-8500 2gigbytes Dual Channel 2x1gig (Part# F2-8500CL5D-2GBPK)
OS: Windows XP SP2 32bit
I read this in the FAQ;
"Let's take an E8400 Wolfdale dual-core, shall we? It has:
a multiplier of 9x
a FSB of 1333mhz
a speed of 3ghz.
Now, 1333x9 is 12ghz, which is definitely not the speed of your CPU (sorry)
To get the actually speed of the chip, divide the FSB by four.
1333mhz/4 = 333mhz.
Now, let's try again:
9x333=3.0ghz (2997mhz if you're picky)
So you need to use DDR2-667 RAM with this CPU at least. (667/2 = 333) "
Now I don't have any formal education with hardware, honestly my only experience is from watching my father tinker with computers. According to this my cpu/system board setup should be able to use my memory to its full capacity.
Now, right here is where I could be completely wrong and the rest of what I'm about to say is worthless but here is the actual problem.
Looking at CPU-Z it reports that my individual sticks of memory have a max bandwidth of PC2-6400 (400mhz) and in the timings table under EPP#1 it rates the frequency at 533mhz at the timings and voltages listed on the sticker on the memory its self. Additionally CPU-Z under the Memory tab lists the memory as single channel which made me double check whether or not I installed my ram in the correct slots and they are. Why would CPU-Z list the memory like this?
There's just so many conflicting numbers I've become overwhelmed please help me out.