Samsung PC 2700 CMOS Settings

[RobertB]

Hello all. First, I apologize if this is a bit off topic for this forum, but I'm new at this board and wasn't quite sure where my question belongs!

I'm running a 1.6a on an Asus P4S533 mobo at 2.13 GHz with 512Mb Samsung DDR PC2700. This is "true original Samsung" OEM memory from Newegg. I've searched high and low and I can't seem to find what the stock CMOS settings are for this memory stick. Shall I just use the SPD setting? Any suggestions on how to set the CMOS for max memory performance? Can anyone help? Thanks,

 

[daveqb]

well iam rather new at this ocerclocking and mem settings etc, but i'll start off the response to this thread....

as far i my limited knowledge on this topic goes..... the lower you set the CL settings the better the performance in the sense of raw ability of the rig. ie CL 2
but a lower CL often means a more unstable system and a limit on how high you can go.
set CL to 2.5 or 3 and the system is more stable and able to crank up a better speed without crashing on you. but the raw performance isnt there

so i guess you play around with it and see how far you can go (FSB) with CL of 2
then up it to 2.5 (i think thats the factory setting for the Samsung PC2100) and see if the slightly higher FSB offsets the lower CL setting.

thats about all i know, still learning myself...
unfortunately havent got an overclocking friendly MoBo so havent been able to experiement much (and cheap RAM)

but hope to change all that next week with getting a KT333 board with some good quality (KIngston) PC2700 RAM

hope i helped some

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

check out asusboards.com. Their forum is very helpful. Go to the Intel/otherchipsets forum, they have a large thread dedicated to tweaking the Asus P4S533

 

[rogue1979]

Try
PH 8
Idle16
Trc 8
Trp 2
Tras 6
Cas 2
Trcd 2

 

[RobertB]

Thanks for your replies. Rogue -- your reply confuses me a bit. Here are the settings in my CMOS under Advanced>Chip configuration:

CAS Latency (SPD 2.5)
RAS to CAS delay (SPD 4)
RAS precharge time (SPD 4)
RAS active time (SPD 7)
Command Lead off time (currently set to auto -- other options 1T or 2T)

I'm having a hard time equating your suggestions to the above settings. Thanks

 

[Tates]

Robert, I have my 1.6a@2400Mhz w/Samsung PC2700 running at 375Mhz, CPU/MEM ratio of 4:5, Ram at 2/3/3/7/1 = Fast