Sandra ays my mem is crap!

woods

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• Jul 4, 2002

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Well the title says it all. The store I bought my mem from sold me one kind of mem, but gave me some generic pos! so I need to know 2 things: what kind of ram will let me safely hit 300FSB or close and can I if I use the ram I have now will it afect the performace of the soon to be new ram?

 

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mjones73

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• Jul 4, 2002

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Any good brand of PC2700 will hit 300 easily since it's rated at 333.

 

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• Jul 4, 2002

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Crucial RAM should be able to hit it, Ive seen a lot of people that have gotten it to 333 or so, just order it straight from their site free shipping

 

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Matthew1001

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• Jul 4, 2002

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They probably cheated you but for the record Sandra sometimes lies to be about what I have in my system. Sometimes it says I have two sticks and other times it says I have three.

 

Dave65

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• Jul 6, 2002

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I am no expert by no means on memory,but I too have asked that same question to find the Sandra findings are not correct in some things..

 

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• Jul 7, 2002

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In what way does sandra say the memory isnt good. Bad benchmarks, ect.

 

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Sandra says that I have pc 2100 mem and the store I bought it from claims pc3000!

 

OC-Master

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• Jul 7, 2002

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Well, you may be running the memory at 266MHz instead of 333MHz. KT266a motherboards will require to overclock the FSB to get that ram up to 333MHz speeds.


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• Jul 8, 2002

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Older ver of sandra/wcpuid can't read newer chipsets so all pc2700 + is read wrong. You need the newest ver of sandra *assuming it is fixed now* or cpu-Z from wcpuid's site to read the speed correctly.

 

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• Jul 9, 2002

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Sandra is a good benchmark but it's info cam be a little flaky. If you want information on your RAM, try:

CTspd

It reads information directly off your RAM, and it's always been correct for me so far.