Question on some bios settings

[zuze]

I have the following bios settings available in the bios of my KT7RAID.
One of them is HOSTCLK
the other one is HOSTCLK+PCICLK
is it memory speed 100mhz and 133mhz?
Pardon my darkness 🙂 the manual is abcent so I can't look it up.

 

[Lowen]

If you enable HostClk+PCIClk you should see about a 3 to 5 % increase in your performance. You may encounter some instability, if you do you may want to back off this setting. The KT7 memory bus is 200Mhz DDR, the only way to increase it is to over clock the FSB, which will increase you PCI bus frequency as well, but again this can lead to stability issues.
Other improvements can be obtained by setting you CAS to 2 instead of three if your memory supports CAS2.

Lowen

 

[Mem]

Yes Zuze,I`ve mine at +33hostclk,(using Crucial PC133)CAS2, on normal settings ,I found when trying to use Turbo or Fast settings was getting lockups in Tacyhon fringe,but on normal setting it`s rock solid so I`m happy using the +33HSTCLK,CAS2,NORMAL settings.
Btw I`ve the MSI K7T PRO Board.

🙂

 

[Lowen]

Here are my current BIOS settings on the KT7 Raid :

Soft Menu Setup 9-5 @ 1000Mhz
Fast CPU Command Decode Fast
CPU Drive Strength 2
Enhance Chip Performance Enable
Force 4-way Interleave Enable
Enable Dram 4K Pagemode Enable
Dram Clock Clk+PCIClk

Advanced BIOS Settings
Virus Warning Disabled
CPU Level 1 Cache Enabled
CPU Level 2 Cache Enabled
CPU Level 2 Cache ECC Checking Enabled
Quick Power Self Test Enabled
Boot Other Device Disabled
Swap Floppiy Drive Disabled
Bootup Floppy Seek Disabled
Bootup Numlock Status Enabled
Typematic Rate Setting Enabled
Video BIOS Shadow Disabled
Delay for HDD (sec's) 0

Advance Chipset Settings
Bank 0/1 Dram Timimg Turbo
Bank 2/3 Dram Timimg Turbo
Bank 4/5 Dram Timimg Turbo
Dram Interleave 4-Way
Delay Dram Read Latch No Delay
MD Drive Strength Hi
SD Ram Cycle Strength 2
Memory Hole Disable
PCI Master Pipeline Required Disable
P2C/C2P Concurrency Enable
Fast Read Write Turn Around Enable
System BIOS Cacheable Enable
Video Ram Cacheable Disabled
AGP Aperture Size 64M
AGP 4X Mode Enable
AGP Driving Control Auto
Fast Write Supported Supported
K7 CLK_CTL Select Optimal
CPU to PCI Write Buffer Enabled
PCI Dynamic Bursting Enabled
PCI Master 0 WS Write Enabled
PCI Delay Transaction Disabled
PCI #2 Access #1 Retry Disabled
AGP Master 1 WS Write Disabled
AGP Master 1 WS Read Disabled

Give these a try.

Lowen

 

[zuze]

Thanks!

Especially -MEM and Lowen. Mem, you were of a great help to me lately!
Dumping KT7-RAID(I better wait for DDR boards with my MSI board that I just ordered).