Wasnt sure whether to put this here or in RAM section, but I figured it was an AMD related problem so...
Hey, my friend is hoping to upgrade his gfx card, but first I asked him for a rundown of his system spec... part of which being the RAM speed.
He sent me this screenshot:
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Now, to me this looks like he has 3 sticks of PC3200 and 1 stick of PC2700, but their actually running at PC2100 speed? Am I correct? Does this mean his BIOS is using a memdivider, that we can change to get it running at PC2700?
Ok, now onto the CPU... he has an Athlon XP 2800+.
Since he has an FSB of 166mhz, how on earth do we get his RAM to run at DDR400 (assuming he buys a replacement PC3200 stick for that PC2700)? Would we need to change his FSB and mulitplier to get it so he is running 200mhz FSB? I dont know much at all about Athlon XP's so I'm stumped here?! I checked his motherboard (Gigabyte GA-7N400-L) and it shows DDR400, so it must be possible?
Thats all for now, thanks in advance for any help/suggestions!
Hey, my friend is hoping to upgrade his gfx card, but first I asked him for a rundown of his system spec... part of which being the RAM speed.
He sent me this screenshot:
Here
Now, to me this looks like he has 3 sticks of PC3200 and 1 stick of PC2700, but their actually running at PC2100 speed? Am I correct? Does this mean his BIOS is using a memdivider, that we can change to get it running at PC2700?
Ok, now onto the CPU... he has an Athlon XP 2800+.
Since he has an FSB of 166mhz, how on earth do we get his RAM to run at DDR400 (assuming he buys a replacement PC3200 stick for that PC2700)? Would we need to change his FSB and mulitplier to get it so he is running 200mhz FSB? I dont know much at all about Athlon XP's so I'm stumped here?! I checked his motherboard (Gigabyte GA-7N400-L) and it shows DDR400, so it must be possible?
Thats all for now, thanks in advance for any help/suggestions!