TRAS and athlon64

[Koyanisquatsi]

There seems to be a common believe that athlon64's prefer a TRAS of 10. I'm wondering if there's any validity to this and if so where's the evidence?

 

[Jeff7181]

It may depend on the memory, but in AnandTech's latest memory review of OCZ VX RAM... it seems to prefer 5-7.

Link

 

[BW86]

I get best bandwith with a tras of 10 with my nforce3 board.
Run memtest86 and see what your board likes the most yourself.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

I tested 5-11, I get the best bandwidth with 7 on an NF4

 

[Koyanisquatsi]

is it possible to run memtest without a floppy?

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: Koyanisquatsi
is it possible to run memtest without a floppy?

If you have a thumbdrive or something that you're capable of booting from I don't see why you couldn't use that instead.

 

[cbehnken]

Originally posted by: Koyanisquatsi
is it possible to run memtest without a floppy?

download the ultimate boot cd

it has memtest86 on it

 

[bunnyfubbles]

I don't think its the CPU or the memory, its the motherboard I believe. 9-11 is usually best for NF3, whereas 6-8 is best for NF4

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
I don't think its the CPU or the memory, its the motherboard I believe. 9-11 is usually best for NF3, whereas 6-8 is best for NF4

Hmmm... my benchmark scores increased a bit when I went from 11 to 7 with my nForce3 board.

*EDIT* Actually I was mistaken, it does perform better at 10 or 11 with my nForce3.

 

[thriemus]

Memtestx68+ has cd iso images ready for download I prefer memtestx86+ as it tells you your memory timings in the test and other additional data.