What are you running your Geil PC3200 memory at?

[BowerR64]

The one with the blue spreader.

Anyone runing this ram? Im windering what the average speeds are so i can set mine for a base setting.

Righ tnow im at 400mhz, cas 2,3,3,3,6 seems to boot up

i tried 2.5,2,2,2,5 and it was a no go. THere are so many settings really im not sure whats doing what.

[stamasd]

That's the one I have. I run it at 2.5-3-3-9, perfectly stable at 210 MHz FSB (420 DDR). Memory voltage is 2.85V. I would have liked to try tRAS even above 9, but that's the max my motherboard allows. If you read the documentation on Geil's site, they say you should give the memory at least 2.7-2.8V instead of what your motherboard defaults to (which may be as low as 2.5V).

[BowerR64]

Originally posted by stamasd
That's the one I have. I run it at 2.5-3-3-9, perfectly stable at 210 MHz FSB (420 DDR). Memory voltage is 2.85V. I would have liked to try tRAS even above 9, but that's the max my motherboard allows. If you read the documentation on Geil's site, they say you should give the memory at least 2.7-2.8V instead of what your motherboard defaults to (which may be as low as 2.5V).

The sticker on my stick says , 2.5-6-3-3 why are you running it at 9? because of the 210 fsb?

[Ritalin]

i have geil golden dragon... not sure taht counts also but im running mine at 2-3-3-6 at 210mhz.

[Ven0m]

that above looks like GeIL non-ultra, non-golden dragon.

[BowerR64]

mine is the stuff with the blue spreader, i think i gave $88. for a 512 meg stick PC3200

[Ven0m]

GeIL value ram, nice mem for this price

Don't decrease tRas too much - it may result in SERIOUS problems. I suggest to have it depending on mobo - areound 11 for Nforces, 6-8 for rest

[stamasd]

Originally posted by BowerR64


The sticker on my stick says , 2.5-6-3-3 why are you running it at 9? because of the 210 fsb?

No, it's because a longer tRAS leads in some cases to better performance. Decreasing it, as pointed above, leads only to problems. It really does make a difference in Sandra's memory benchmark. Not much but it does.