Akira Claymore Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 About 4 years ago I bought the Dominator series. And it seems after going through two motherboards, it still has yet to prove that it actually is 1066mhz. Maybe I just don't have the right kind of motherboard. I tried checking to see if my board is compatible but the link to it is currently down. Is there something I'm missing? My motherboard "claims" it can do up to 1066mhz supporting 800 and lower as well. oddly though, in the bios, on auto it says DDR2 800. But when I go to change it from the drop-down menu, I only get up to DDR2 800. Then I remembered, "oh! the ram sticks should go on the other two dimm slots for that type of ram" the manual to my motherboard (in tiny print) said that if I ever adopt DDR2 1066 ram, its recommended that you put them in slot 3 and 4. oddly, once I did, there was no difference. It still said 800. Is there anything I can do, or should do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 How are you checking the memory speed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akira Claymore Posted January 1, 2011 Author Share Posted January 1, 2011 The speed is actually 400mhz and the bios seems to think its a DDR2 800. but still. I can check the speed in the bios and on the program called Speccy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted January 1, 2011 Share Posted January 1, 2011 1. 400 MHz IS DDR2-800. DOUBLE Data Rate (has nothing to do with dual channel), so 400 MHz = 2 = 800 MHz 400 MHz = ACTUAL speed 800 MHz = EFFECTIVE speed Use CPU-Z (link's on the left), and check out the speed under the MEMORY tab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akira Claymore Posted January 3, 2011 Author Share Posted January 3, 2011 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v307/trueprower/CPUID.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted January 3, 2011 Share Posted January 3, 2011 Odd speed. Sounds like you're on some odd multiplier on your CPU. Dunno if that's normal or not for your CPU's native clockspeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akira Claymore Posted January 3, 2011 Author Share Posted January 3, 2011 Says the multiplier is set at 15.0x in the CPU tab. Did you want to see what's in the CPU tab? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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