DocGiggs
01-10-04, 01:40 PM
Okay, most of my current system specs are now uptodate in my sig, however I just bought some new Geil Golden Dragon pc4000 memory and it's acting very, very, VERY wierd....
I can't tell that it's bad though, none of the memory testers I've used show it to be bad at all, but let me explain.
It's suppose to be from 2.6 to 2.95 operation voltage and 250 mhz fsb with 2.5-4-4-7 timing.... good stuff right?
Unfortunately, my asus board won't let me go over 2.8v so I can't experiment as much as I would like until I do the volt mod... yah just been too lazy to buy the parts heh. So I decided to mess around with the timings and see what it can do in the 200-210 fsb range. Here's what I found is intereting and I can't explain.
My CAS latency can only be either a 2 or 2.5. If I try to set it to 3 the system won't post at all. No matter what my fsb is set to. I could set it to 100 and it wouldn't work... odd huh?
Also, my other timings are similar. I can only set the first 2 numbers in a range of 3 to 5. Anything higher or lower will cause the system not to post no matter then fsb. The last number doesn't seem to matter at all, I can set it to anything just about and the system doesn't care (that's the cas to ras precharge).
Any ideas why my memory is behaving like this? I was hoping that if I couldn't do 250 fsb or close right now cause of lack of voltage that I could at least do 200 fsb wtih 2.8v and 2-2-2-5 timings..... sadly I can't better then 2-3-3-5...grrrrr..
I can't tell that it's bad though, none of the memory testers I've used show it to be bad at all, but let me explain.
It's suppose to be from 2.6 to 2.95 operation voltage and 250 mhz fsb with 2.5-4-4-7 timing.... good stuff right?
Unfortunately, my asus board won't let me go over 2.8v so I can't experiment as much as I would like until I do the volt mod... yah just been too lazy to buy the parts heh. So I decided to mess around with the timings and see what it can do in the 200-210 fsb range. Here's what I found is intereting and I can't explain.
My CAS latency can only be either a 2 or 2.5. If I try to set it to 3 the system won't post at all. No matter what my fsb is set to. I could set it to 100 and it wouldn't work... odd huh?
Also, my other timings are similar. I can only set the first 2 numbers in a range of 3 to 5. Anything higher or lower will cause the system not to post no matter then fsb. The last number doesn't seem to matter at all, I can set it to anything just about and the system doesn't care (that's the cas to ras precharge).
Any ideas why my memory is behaving like this? I was hoping that if I couldn't do 250 fsb or close right now cause of lack of voltage that I could at least do 200 fsb wtih 2.8v and 2-2-2-5 timings..... sadly I can't better then 2-3-3-5...grrrrr..