chaoseternite Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 First of all, I am a noob. Growing up in the ghetto, I could never afford computers, so any help is welcome. I just upgraded my Asus a7n8x (AMD 2600+) from two 512's to two Corsair VS1GB400C3 1 gig sticks. My performance is actually worse now. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to change to make it run correctly with this RAM. Some interesting notes. If I set Memory Frequency to AUTO in the BIOS, it boots at 166. The only way I can egt it to boot at 200mhz, is to set it to By Spd. I have seen some post about the 8-3-3-2.5 numbers, and I assume that is latency, precharge delay, RAS to CAS delay and such, but in what order are these when they are posted as such, I mean, what is the 8, the 3 and what not? Also, I heard it is best to disable FSB Spread Spectrum, but it won't let me change it. help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 They're supposed to run @ 166 w/ that CPU, as 166 is the FSB. The memory timings are supposed to be run @ SPD timings (by defaults). 2.5-3-3-8 are not the appropriate memory timings for your memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 8, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 8, 2005 With this MB and CPU you would need to run the memory at DDR333 and I would try the settings as suggested by Wired! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaoseternite Posted November 8, 2005 Author Share Posted November 8, 2005 Would any of you happen to know if it;s supposed to say "Dual Channel" when it posts? Cause I don't see it. Also, I just can't figure it out, with my 6800 Ultra and everything, my rig should rock, I'm lost. What is a good benchmarking program, I got one and it had no other computers like mine listed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 9, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 9, 2005 Run http://www.memtest.org and it will tell you if it’s in 64 bit single channel or 128 Bit Dual channel. And the modules would need to be in slots 1-3 or 2-3 to be in dual channel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaoseternite Posted November 9, 2005 Author Share Posted November 9, 2005 Thanks for the info. I know I'm in the correct slots, I just don't see it displaying "Dual Channel" anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 9, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 9, 2005 Thats not uncommon! Just test with http://www.memtest.org to be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaoseternite Posted November 9, 2005 Author Share Posted November 9, 2005 Cool, thanks again. I'll do that first thing fter work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 9, 2005 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 9, 2005 Please let me know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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