RAM timing questions

[ariakasRM]

I have an Asus a7n8x deluxe 2.0 mobo.
In advanced chipset features, it lists these items in this order
SDRAM Active Precharge Delay
SDRAM RAS to CAS
SDRAM RAS Precharge Delay
CAS Latency
with default values of (8,3,3,2.5 respectively) -- i have 2x512mb kingston hyper x pc3200 ram

When ppl say change ram timings, for example, to 2-3-3-7, does that pertain to the opposite order for me? (Active Precharge Delay = 7, CAS Latency = 2)?

I've already changed vdimm to 2.8 in hopes of finally getting a successful couple of hours on prime95, but no success yet. I'm at 200x11 (on a 2500+), vcore at 1.75. I'm wondering if these ram timings might have something to do with it. Any help with both issues would be much appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Soulkeeper]

Originally posted by: ariakasRM
I have an Asus a7n8x deluxe 2.0 mobo.
In advanced chipset features, it lists these items in this order
SDRAM Active Precharge Delay
SDRAM RAS to CAS
SDRAM RAS Precharge Delay
CAS Latency
with default values of (8,3,3,2.5 respectively) -- i have 2x512mb kingston hyper x pc3200 ram

When ppl say change ram timings, for example, to 2-3-3-7, does that pertain to the opposite order for me? (Active Precharge Delay = 7, CAS Latency = 2)?

I've already changed vdimm to 2.8 in hopes of finally getting a successful couple of hours on prime95, but no success yet. I'm at 200x11 (on a 2500+), vcore at 1.75. I'm wondering if these ram timings might have something to do with it. Any help with both issues would be much appreciated. Thanks.

usually people say it in this order

cas, ras, cas_to_ras, precharge_delay

i would try for the lowest you can basically with cas being the most important

i had trouble getting 200 fully stable on my nforce2 rig also
changing the timings had very little affect on stability for me

try raising the chipset voltage a bit and see if that helps

what temps are you running at for the chipset and cpu ??

also you might wanna try one stick and see what that does

if all else fails using a ratio for a lower mem speed then lowering the latencies on the mem to make up for it is also a good plan
because the nforce2 is dual channel it already offers twice the bandwidth that the cpu can use so this won't hurt much

the highest i could get my mem fully stable with 1:1 was like 185 or 190
although once i was able to complete 3dmark2k3 at 222