is my ram running slow?

[jkohlhepp86]

I overclocked all my stuff years ago and really haven't touched or looked at it since, but now that my computer has started freezing in pretty much every game I decided to take a look at it. I ran memtest86 and noticed that it told me my ram frequency was 166mhz, which is also what cpu-z says, which I thought was low, but maybe it was incorrect info. Anyways here are my cpu-z screenshots, it lists my mushkin 1gig sticks as pc3200 when its pc4000. In my bios there is no place for fsb:dram ratio, and theres only 1 place that i saw to set dram frequencies, and the only choices were auto, 266, 320,400,500,533, so i put it on 266 because my fsb is running at 250 and that was the closest to it. Also my AGP/PCI Freq is set to auto, the choices are 66.66/33.33, 72.73/36.36, 80.00/40.00. If anyone can see any problems or have any suggestions please let me know.

 

[White_Pawn]

set your dram frequency to 500 and your ram should run at its stock speeds of 250mhz.

Those frequencies are ram dividers.

 

[smokie mcpott]

notice half his ram is pc3200 the best he can run is 200(ddr400) without overclocking the ram

 

[jkohlhepp86]

notice half his ram is pc3200 the best he can run is 200(ddr400) without overclocking the ram

that is incorrect, all my ram is pc4000, its a misprint by cpu-z, which they say happens on their website due to bad configurations or something, i didnt really understand it. Here is the ram it says is pc3200:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820146034

Anyways, I just set the DRAM frequency to 500 and it wouldn't boot, and the next time it said overclocking failed, now im sitting in bios. dram voltage = 2.65v. upped voltage to 2.75, timings = 3-3-3-8(they were on auto by SPD or something), still no boot.

 

[smokie mcpott]

interesting

 

[jkohlhepp86]

current non-booting settings:
Configure DRAM timing by SPD: Disabled
DRAM CAS lat: 3
ras# pre: 3
ras to cas: 3
dram precharge delay: 8
dram burst length: 4
memory acceleration mode: auto
dram idle timer: auto
dram refresh rate: auto

cpu external frequency: 250mhz
dram refrequency: 500mhz
agp/pci frequency: auto
cpu volt: 1.65v
ddr ref volt: 2.75v
agp volt: 1.5v

cpu temp: 35c
mb temp: 24c

on a side note: should i just take out my 512mb of OCZ?

 

[White_Pawn]

try lowering you divider to 400 and see if it boots, then 333.

what fsb are you running?

 

[jkohlhepp86]

ok it didnt boot at 400, it froze at my asus screen, then i rebooted, and it gave me some bad bios checksum error, rebooted again, said overclocking failed. just booted at 320 fine.
Frequency: 3250mhz
fsb speed: 1001mhz
cpu external frequency: 250mhz
dram frequency: 320mhz

^^what i'm at right now, sorry if i dont answer anyones questions correctly, just tell me, i have forgotten a lot about computers and a lot of this stuff is easy to mix up after being away from it for a few years.

 

[jkohlhepp86]

i removed my 512mb of OCZ and now it boots at 400, but still not at 500. any suggestions?

edit:nevermind, it is far from stable at 400, im getting errors saying files have changed and to check for faulty hardware.