So this board automaticaly downclocks the speed to ddr333 if there are 4 sticks of 512mb ram in there. I knew this would happen, but didn't think it wouldn't be to much trouble, since I run my ram at a divider, 266mhz, which made the effective speed of my ram around 370ddr, instead of 400. Big deal, right ?
But now I'm getting randomn BSODS, sometimes in Windows, and in games more often then not, quite fast. 3dmark06 would also crap out during the cpu test. So I relaxed the timings, up to 3-15-5-5. There's a bunch of other timings in the bios, and well, I haven't written them down be4, but I would swear they are lower then they used to be. In fact, when I reverted all the BIOS settings back to default, the ram timings were like 2-7-3-3, even tho the ram is rated at cas2.5 ?
I relaxed the 'other' timings as well, I really want to keep this x2 3800 + oc-ed at 2.6ghz. I might settle for 2.4ghz, but no lower !!! So I need help, suggestions, whatever you got to offer
- edit: Hmz, at 2.5ghz, multi 10, fsb 250, it seems to be stable, the ram is at 333mhz effective speed, which is exactly at what the mobo will set it at at default. Perhaps it simply won't/can't do over 333mhz with 4 sticks of 512mb in there ? I seem to have read that it depends on the stepping of your cpu though, and E6 being the latest, it shouldn't actually have problems with doing 4 x 512 @ 400ddr. So what the fluff ?
Suggestion still welcome. My bios revision is 1003, after checking again, it's the latest asus has to offer.
But now I'm getting randomn BSODS, sometimes in Windows, and in games more often then not, quite fast. 3dmark06 would also crap out during the cpu test. So I relaxed the timings, up to 3-15-5-5. There's a bunch of other timings in the bios, and well, I haven't written them down be4, but I would swear they are lower then they used to be. In fact, when I reverted all the BIOS settings back to default, the ram timings were like 2-7-3-3, even tho the ram is rated at cas2.5 ?
I relaxed the 'other' timings as well, I really want to keep this x2 3800 + oc-ed at 2.6ghz. I might settle for 2.4ghz, but no lower !!! So I need help, suggestions, whatever you got to offer
- edit: Hmz, at 2.5ghz, multi 10, fsb 250, it seems to be stable, the ram is at 333mhz effective speed, which is exactly at what the mobo will set it at at default. Perhaps it simply won't/can't do over 333mhz with 4 sticks of 512mb in there ? I seem to have read that it depends on the stepping of your cpu though, and E6 being the latest, it shouldn't actually have problems with doing 4 x 512 @ 400ddr. So what the fluff ?
Suggestion still welcome. My bios revision is 1003, after checking again, it's the latest asus has to offer.
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