lol ,I think we were getting our wires crossed
I had assumed you were running a synch'ed FSB/RAM ,my bad
An yeah FSB is the speed of the bus between CPU & Northbridge (external not internal though).
Ok ,your going to need to experiment to see which gives you the best memory scores.
You want to end up with as high a RAM speed as is stable BUT you also don't want to be running very high latencies as this will negate the performance benefit of the high MHz(as you found out with SSS).
As far as latencies go lower is better ,so 2-2-2-5 is a nice low latency ,worth having but your RAM won't achieve a very high MHz at those settings.
Which btw refer to the table below(numbers available depend upon chipset).A good compromise is 2.5-2-2-6 ,my RAM at these settings can manage 178MHz.
A rather high latency would be 3-3-3-7 & this is going to hurt performance ,don't bother going any higher.
SDRAM CAS Latency: Auto, 2T, 2.5T, 3T
SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay: 1-7
SDRAM RAS to Precharge Delay: 1-7
SDRAM Active Precharge Delay: 1-15
Whatever your FSB is ,you could start off with a RAM speed of 170MHz ,set the Latencies to 2.5-2-2-6 ,test for stability & then increase the RAM speed in steps of 3MHz & retesting.Once you've hit your limit do an SSS mem test & you can compare to different speeds & settings.
Will turning up the RAM voltage help out with errors in Prime95 or should I just lower my speeds?
It may do ,try it & test it ,if not lower your speed.
If you read though all this thread you'll get at least a rough idea what your RAM can do ,good luck & have fun!
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