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Old July 18th 03, 03:12 AM
Guido
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Default OCZ Memory on A7n8x Deluxe V2 Mobo

My system is:

My system is:

a7n8x Deluxe V2.0 / Uber bios R1005 sata enhenced
Barton XP 3200+ @ 2400 (200x12) `Very Stable'
OCZ PC3500 EL Dual Channel DDR 2x256 set
Thermaltake VOLCANO 9
300 watts power supply. Plenty of case cooling.
Randon All-In-Wonder ATI 9800 Pro
WinXP Pro SP1
CPU temp runs constantly between 40c and 45c

OCZ recomends the following settings:

http://www.ocztechnology.com/support/motherboard/43

"Recommended settings for the OCZ PC3500 EL Dual Channel DDR is with
the FSB set to 166 and the memory asynchronous at 217Mhz ( 217x2 =
434Mhz ) with the timings of 2-3-7-3."

But, on another page of thier web site, they recomend this:

http://www.ocztechnology.com/support/performance/

"PC3500 EL-DDR 2 3 3 2 (217MHz)"

They are posting thier #'s in reverse, so the last # is the CMD Rate,
first # is the CAS.

Thier site states that I should be able to do this with the a7n8x
mobo. But for the life of me, I can't. I spend a whole night and
part of a day trying.

If I drop the fsb to 166, there is no way to get back to 2400MHz. The
closest I can get is 14x166=2324MHz. A 14.5 multiplier is not
available (I'm being nit-picky here). And what in the world is a
multiplier of 7.0x/15.0x, 8.0x/1600x, or 8.5x/16.5x? All of these are
multiplier options;does this mean I can choose one or the other? I
tried the 7.0x/15.0x multiplier, and it multiplied by 7.0x. Is there a
way of choosing the 15.0x mulitiplier?

My bios settings are below. I have posted all the settings in the
"Advance Chipset Features", because, if I leave something out, someone
is sure to ask for it.

CPU External Freq......................................200MHz
Multiple Setting........................................... ..Menu
CPU Multiple.......................................... .......12.0
System Performance.................................User Defined
CPU Interface......................................... ......Optimal
Memory Frequency....................................By SPD
Resulting Frequency.................................200 MHz
Memory Timing...........................................U ser Defined
SDRAM Active Percentage Delay.......6
SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay...................3
SDRAM RAS Percentage Delay.........3
SDRAM CAS Lantency..........................2T
FSB Spread Spectrum...........................Disabled
AGP Spread Spectrum..........................Disabled
CPU VCore Setting.................................Menu
CPU VCore ..............................................1.67 5v
Graphics Aperture Size.........................64mb
AGP Frequency.......................................Au to
System Bios Catchable........................Disabled
Video Ram Catchable..........................Disabled
Chip Voltage Control.............................+1.6v
AGP Fastwrite......................................... .Disabled

What am I missing here?
Thanks for any help.