Someone Please Help Me With My Ram

Hello all, briefly my system specs:


-P4 3.0 HT, 800fsb
-Asus P4c800e deluxe
-2x512mb (in dual channel slots) corsair 400mhz pc3200 ram
-Ati radeon x800 pro soft modded to x800 XT PE 16 pipe and vga silencer rev4
-450 watt PS
-2x Maxtor 80 gig on raid setup
-40 gig wd
-60 gig wd
-plextor 708a 8x dvd burner
-lite-on 16x dvd rom
-SB audigy gamer sound card.


Here are my overclock settings: (thanks to Vflux for these)

- CPUID Maximum Limit [Disabled]- Hyperthreading [Enabled]- Configure DRAM by SPD [3-4-4-8] Burst Length [8]- Performance Acceleration Mode [Auto]- DRAM Idle Timer [Auto]- DRAM Refresh Rate [Auto]- Spread Spectrum [Disabled]- ICH Delayed Transaction [Disabled]- MPS Revision [1.4]- Graphic Apapter Priority [AGP/PCI]- Graphic Aperture Size [128MB]

- AI Overclocking Tuner [Manual]- CPU External Frequency [230]- DRAM Frequency [400]- AGP/PCI Frequency [66/33]- CPU Vcore Voltage [1.6V]- DDR Reference Voltage [2.85V]- AGP VDDQ Voltage [1.65V]- Performance Mode [Standard]- USB 2.0 Controller [2]- USB Legacy Support [Disabled]- Parallel Port/Serial Port [Disabled]- Allocate IRQ to PCI VGA [No]- Speech Reporter [Disabled]<BR>- System Thermal [Disabled]- Q-Fan [Disabled]- Onboard LAN [Enabled]- All Onboard Devices [Disabled]- IDE Detect Time [0sec]<BR>- 32bit Data Transfer [Enabled]


And my question is what ratio should i be having my Ram at...i dont really understand what 1:1 means etc. I just added the zalman HS to my CPU...and my system is stable at the above settings...PCU never gets hotter than 51 degrees C. Id like to make sure that im getting all i can out of the system. I think i have a ram issue because when i have a few programs running at once..i can press ctrl+alt+del and that utility says im only using 5-20% of my CPU...but my pc acts extremly sluggish. Anyone have any ideas? Or any settings i should change? Thanks a ton in advance!

A 1:1 ratio offers more bandwidth, which is what you want to have. My setup runs better @ a 1:1 than a 5:4 with a higher overclock on the CPU. Is that the XMS memory or their Value Select? Do you know what the default timings are for it?

And use: CPU-Z version 1.24 to see what your CPU and RAM are doing.

Its th e XMS stuff.... and hows this look?

CPU-Z version 1.24.


CPU(s)
Number of CPUs 2 (1 Physical)

CPU#1 APIC ID = 0
CPU Name Intel Pentium 4
Name Intel Pentium 4
Code Name Northwood
Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Family / Model / Stepping F 2 9
Extended Family / Model 0 0
Brand ID 9
Package mPGA-478
Core Stepping D1
Technology 0.13 µ
Supported Instructions Sets MMX, SSE, SSE2
CPU Clock Speed 3419.7 MHz
Clock multiplier x 15.0
Front Side Bus Frequency 228.0 MHz
Bus Speed 911.9 MHz
L1 Data Cache 8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Trace Cache 12 Kµops, 8-way set associative
L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 3419.7 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 256 bits

CPU#2 APIC ID = 1
CPU Name Intel Pentium 4 (logical unit)


Mainboard and chipset
Motherboard manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
Motherboard model P4C800-E, Rev 1.xx
BIOS vendor American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS revision 1017.004
BIOS release date 07/22/2004
Chipset Intel i875P rev. A2
Southbridge Intel 82801EB (ICH5) rev. 2
Sensor chip Winbond W83627THF
FSB Select 800 MHz
Performance Mode enabled
Graphic Interface AGP
AGP Status enabled, rev. 3.0
AGP Data Transfert Rate 8x
AGP Max Rate 8x
AGP Side Band Addressing supported, enabled
AGP Aperture Size 128 MBytes

Memory
DRAM Type DDR-SDRAM
DRAM Size 1024 MBytes
DRAM Frequency 228.0 MHz
FSBRAM 1:1
CAS# Latency 3.0 clocks
RAS# to CAS# 4 clocks
RAS# Precharge 4 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) 8 clocks
# of memory modules 2
Module 0 Corsair DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 512 MBytes
Module 1 Corsair DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 512 MBytes

Software
Windows version Microsoft Windows XP Workstation Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
DirectX version 9.0c

See if it'll boot @ 2.5-3-3-7 and that looks nice.

is it possible that my computer would perform better at less than what i have it clocked at? My computer runs stable under load at what i posted in that Cpu ID up there, but maybe i should scale it back some?

Also which settings voltage wise do i need to play with in order to get more out of my rig since my temps are low and im stable at what i have now?

bump

That is basically the same thing I can run @. I'm adding a better PSU though cause my current one is fluctuating below 12v too much. It did this on my other setup also.

If it's stable for extended periods of time, especially gaming and such leave it there. If it crashes step it down a bit.

What voltage is your Vcore set @ in the bios?