BE6-II & Ram slot closest to cpu slot (Ram slot 1 I guess)

[bdf24]

I cannot overclock any higher then 960mhz while using the first ram slot on my board. But the ram is moved to the third slot (farthest from the cpu slot) it boots right up and runs perfect @ 1008mhz!
I was always led to believe it would be the other way around.

Has anyone else had this problem? This is with the Abit BE6-II v1.0

 

[Placid]

I dont think I would call this a problem.
In my opinion when you oc a cpu to its max anything that slows down the amount of information to it will allow it clock slightly higher.
Moving the ram farther from the cpu would slow down the information slightly.
So would simply reducing the ram timing.
I know a guy who could oc a 700 to 1100 with a slow agp video card. He upgraded to a GeForce 3 and can only overclock to 1040 now.
I belive its because the GF3 is pumping information to the cpu alot faster and the cpu just cant take it at those speeds.

 

[bdf24]

Well, I must say that does make sense!
I guess I dont really care as long as it works good!

 

[outhouse]

one way to find out for sure would be to clock your pc where its stable and then run sisandra with the memory stick in each slot and see how your bandwidth stacks up if it reduces ram timing then there will be a loss of bandwidth in the 3rd slot. you have me curious now