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Memory setting of Asus® A8N SLI Premium ??
memory OCZ platinum PC3500
was set to 2-2-2-5 on my previous MB asus p4c800e and P4 3.2 now the best I can have is 2.5-3-3-6 with my new MB and X2 4400+ cpu ?? why ? |
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"Jean" wrote in message
... memory OCZ platinum PC3500 was set to 2-2-2-5 on my previous MB asus p4c800e and P4 3.2 now the best I can have is 2.5-3-3-6 with my new MB and X2 4400+ cpu ?? why ? Contact the memory manufacturer. Most of them have support forums to assist you. However, it is typical that AMD 64 can only use 2.5-3-3-6 on the same memory that runs at 2-2-2-5 on Intel. I believe it has something to do with processor speed for a given clock cycle, which is faster on AMD. But I am no expert on this. |
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"Jean" wrote in message
... memory OCZ platinum PC3500 was set to 2-2-2-5 on my previous MB asus p4c800e and P4 3.2 now the best I can have is 2.5-3-3-6 with my new MB and X2 4400+ cpu ?? why ? What is your DDR Voltage set to in the BIOS setup? Is it set to the OCZ recommeded voltage? It should be 2.7 Volts or 2.8 Volts depending on which of the Platinum PC-3500 models you have. It appears that OCZ has discontinued the PC-3500 Platinum series. I'm currently running this same motherboard with the OCZ EL DDR PC-3200 2GB Dual Channel Platinum Kit rated at CL 2-3-2-5 and 2.6 Volts. It appears to run fine with this RAM at the rated timings (and 1T Command rate) and voltage, but I'm currently not running an x2 processor or overclocking. When I originally installed the memory I had forgotten to change the DDR Voltage from the 2.5 Volts BIOS default to the 2.6 Volts specified by OCZ so I wasn't able to reach the rated CL 2-3-2-5 timings, I was only able to achieve 2.5-3-3-7. |
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thanks I'm thinking of buying the PC3500 Gold gamer edition 1 gig kit... There is no 2 gig kit. Is it
true that if I installed 4x512meg =2 gig then I cannot select 1t command rate ? I readed somewhere that 1T was only possible when using only 2 memory bank. There is so many choices on OCZ website...really confusing ! "Homer J. Simpson" wrote in message news:SCDOe.287302$5V4.32413@pd7tw3no... "Jean" wrote in message ... memory OCZ platinum PC3500 was set to 2-2-2-5 on my previous MB asus p4c800e and P4 3.2 now the best I can have is 2.5-3-3-6 with my new MB and X2 4400+ cpu ?? why ? What is your DDR Voltage set to in the BIOS setup? Is it set to the OCZ recommeded voltage? It should be 2.7 Volts or 2.8 Volts depending on which of the Platinum PC-3500 models you have. It appears that OCZ has discontinued the PC-3500 Platinum series. I'm currently running this same motherboard with the OCZ EL DDR PC-3200 2GB Dual Channel Platinum Kit rated at CL 2-3-2-5 and 2.6 Volts. It appears to run fine with this RAM at the rated timings (and 1T Command rate) and voltage, but I'm currently not running an x2 processor or overclocking. When I originally installed the memory I had forgotten to change the DDR Voltage from the 2.5 Volts BIOS default to the 2.6 Volts specified by OCZ so I wasn't able to reach the rated CL 2-3-2-5 timings, I was only able to achieve 2.5-3-3-7. |
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"Jean" wrote in message
news thanks I'm thinking of buying the PC3500 Gold gamer edition 1 gig kit... There is no 2 gig kit. Is it true that if I installed 4x512meg =2 gig then I cannot select 1t command rate ? I readed somewhere that 1T was only possible when using only 2 memory bank. There is so many choices on OCZ website...really confusing ! "Homer J. Simpson" wrote in message news:SCDOe.287302$5V4.32413@pd7tw3no... "Jean" wrote in message ... memory OCZ platinum PC3500 was set to 2-2-2-5 on my previous MB asus p4c800e and P4 3.2 now the best I can have is 2.5-3-3-6 with my new MB and X2 4400+ cpu ?? why ? What is your DDR Voltage set to in the BIOS setup? Is it set to the OCZ recommeded voltage? It should be 2.7 Volts or 2.8 Volts depending on which of the Platinum PC-3500 models you have. It appears that OCZ has discontinued the PC-3500 Platinum series. I'm currently running this same motherboard with the OCZ EL DDR PC-3200 2GB Dual Channel Platinum Kit rated at CL 2-3-2-5 and 2.6 Volts. It appears to run fine with this RAM at the rated timings (and 1T Command rate) and voltage, but I'm currently not running an x2 processor or overclocking. When I originally installed the memory I had forgotten to change the DDR Voltage from the 2.5 Volts BIOS default to the 2.6 Volts specified by OCZ so I wasn't able to reach the rated CL 2-3-2-5 timings, I was only able to achieve 2.5-3-3-7. With 4 RAM modules it definitely is more challenging to get it to work. I would say that you can select the 1T command rate, but that doesn't imply that your motherboard will even POST when you save the BIOS settings change and reboot. If 1T doesn't work ASUS POST Reporter will report that the memory test failed. |
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you can run 1T with 4 banks filled only at 333, for 400 it wants 2T, not
sure about x2 processors though, may be different. "Homer J. Simpson" wrote in message news:3XYOe.7889$Hk.4877@pd7tw1no... "Jean" wrote in message news thanks I'm thinking of buying the PC3500 Gold gamer edition 1 gig kit... There is no 2 gig kit. Is it true that if I installed 4x512meg =2 gig then I cannot select 1t command rate ? I readed somewhere that 1T was only possible when using only 2 memory bank. There is so many choices on OCZ website...really confusing ! "Homer J. Simpson" wrote in message news:SCDOe.287302$5V4.32413@pd7tw3no... "Jean" wrote in message ... memory OCZ platinum PC3500 was set to 2-2-2-5 on my previous MB asus p4c800e and P4 3.2 now the best I can have is 2.5-3-3-6 with my new MB and X2 4400+ cpu ?? why ? What is your DDR Voltage set to in the BIOS setup? Is it set to the OCZ recommeded voltage? It should be 2.7 Volts or 2.8 Volts depending on which of the Platinum PC-3500 models you have. It appears that OCZ has discontinued the PC-3500 Platinum series. I'm currently running this same motherboard with the OCZ EL DDR PC-3200 2GB Dual Channel Platinum Kit rated at CL 2-3-2-5 and 2.6 Volts. It appears to run fine with this RAM at the rated timings (and 1T Command rate) and voltage, but I'm currently not running an x2 processor or overclocking. When I originally installed the memory I had forgotten to change the DDR Voltage from the 2.5 Volts BIOS default to the 2.6 Volts specified by OCZ so I wasn't able to reach the rated CL 2-3-2-5 timings, I was only able to achieve 2.5-3-3-7. With 4 RAM modules it definitely is more challenging to get it to work. I would say that you can select the 1T command rate, but that doesn't imply that your motherboard will even POST when you save the BIOS settings change and reboot. If 1T doesn't work ASUS POST Reporter will report that the memory test failed. |
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