Quick ram question.

[Jgtdragon]

Real quick question about ram. In the bios for time setting for my ram I have a selection of Manuel or SPD. What is SPD? With manuel I can change the cas and such, but with SPD it set it at 2-6-3-3.

What is SPD?


Thanks

 

[bozo1]

SPD means Serial Presence Detect. Basically it is a big of memory on the chip that tells the motherboard what it is and what its normal settings should be. Setting your BIOS to SPD tells it to use the timings that the memory module was designed to work at. If you set your BIOS to manual you can select the timings.

 

[DannyBoy]

Originally posted by: bozo1
SPD means Serial Presence Detect. Basically it is a big of memory on the chip that tells the motherboard what it is and what its normal settings should be. Setting your BIOS to SPD tells it to use the timings that the memory module was designed to work at. If you set your BIOS to manual you can select the timings.

Thus you can under/over clock the memory by doing so

 

[arcenite]

Heh.. I always thought SPD was just the mobo manufacturer being too lazy to spell out Speed....

Bill

 

[Elcs]

Originally posted by: aRCeNiTe
Heh.. I always thought SPD was just the mobo manufacturer being too lazy to spell out Speed....

Bill

Me too.