15:16 ratio any good?

Teki187 · 29 Mar 2008 at 23:36

CPU E6400 @ 3.0ghz (1500)
Ram 8500 @ 800mhz (800)

Am i alright running at that ratio?

I can get 1:1 but im having trouble getting it stable.

TechnoCorruption · 30 Mar 2008 at 09:34

What specs re you running?

The myth about "only running 1:1" has never really been backed up in my opinion. I always use the ratio that gives me the best compromise between fastest memory possible and stability.

reflux · 30 Mar 2008 at 15:22

Core 2s love bandwidth. Therefore, the faster you can run your RAM the better. 1:1 is only really important on A64 systems AFAIK.

kitfit1 · 30 Mar 2008 at 15:38

reflux said:
Core 2s love bandwidth. Therefore, the faster you can run your RAM the better. 1:1 is only really important on A64 systems AFAIK.

That statement is true, but it should carry a rider. Don't go for a faster ram speed at the expense of cpu speed. Cpu speed is THE most important thing, if you can get high ram speeds as well, then that's a bonus.

Teki187 · 30 Mar 2008 at 20:38

Specs are

E6400
Asus P5N-E SLI
4gb ballistix
640mb 8800 GTS (G80)

Mr Paul · 30 Mar 2008 at 23:43

reflux said:
Core 2s love bandwidth. Therefore, the faster you can run your RAM the better. 1:1 is only really important on A64 systems AFAIK.

Nope A64's it didn't matter as you never could run 1:1 i.e. it ALWAYS ran as a divider of theCPU clock speed.

It was P4's 1:1 was useful

Matt26LFC · 3 Apr 2008 at 15:25

Im pretty sure u can get a little more outta that CPU, what r your BIOS settings? voltages, mem timings etc this board does suffer from FSB holes aswell.

Wats your LDT set to in the BIOS?

Roland0 · 3 Apr 2008 at 18:54

im sure it was the A64s that needed 1:1 as they had the mem controller on die??

matt100 · 3 Apr 2008 at 18:59

Mr Paul said:
Nope A64's it didn't matter as you never could run 1:1 i.e. it ALWAYS ran as a divider of theCPU clock speed.

It was P4's 1:1 was useful

sorry dude that wrong. 1:1 and low CAS latency was always the big deal with A64s.

Wiggins · 3 Apr 2008 at 19:09

I have to disagree with 1:1 not being a good option.

I get far better read/writes with my memory on a 1:1 with my c2d (CPU 400FSB - memory 400Mhz) than I do with the memory at 500Mhz.

I cannot get the E6320 @ 500FSB. Would be nice but not a cat in hells chance on air

Edit: I am talkin out of my ass actually. I just booted to 2.8Ghz/400FSB with the Memory at 1000Mhz and got a slightly better read/write.

As soon as I upped the E6320 to 3.2Ghz I saw a MASSIVE drop in read speeds but a good increase in write speeds :confused:

Oh for the OP, I too have a P5N-E SLI Mobo