AW9D-MAX and GiEL Memory

VooVoo · 16 Feb 2007 at 15:07

I have the Abit AW9D-MAX running the Intel Core Duo X6800 Chip with the GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz RAM in it.

Now using the SPD setting etc (basically not touching BIOS and letting it boot up) its running a 1.8v and 5-5-5-15.

Now according to the sticker on the chip it says it can run at 2.1v and does 4-4-4-12. Thing is when i did this it was giving Errors in Memtest 1.70.

So i took it back to OC's and said its failing at the speeds it should do, so since i couldn't go without RAM i brought some more to replace it (of the same type of RAM). Tried the same and the new RAM threw up errors at the above timings.

So i left it at the SPD settings etc and picked up the RMA'd RAM i took back to find its not faulty and runs perfectly... which slightly annoyed me, guy in the shop said i should try 2.2v's which hasn't worked.

So currently i've tried the following

1.8 at 5-5-5-15 (works)
1.8 at 4-4-4-12 (errors)
2.0 at 4-4-4-12 (errors)
2.05 at 4-4-4-12 (errors)
2.1 at 4-4-4-12 (errors)
2.2 at 4-4-4-12 (erros)

I'm not great with messing in BIOS but if anyone has the same M/board CPU and RAM and knows how to set this up incase i'm missing out a step i should be doing would be a great help

Thanks in advanced

wizardmaxx · 16 Feb 2007 at 15:10

try running at 4-4-4-15.

VooVoo · 16 Feb 2007 at 15:15

I'll give it a try later, but if it does run at 4-4-4-15 doesn't that mean i've been mis-sold an item that says it does 4-4-4-12?

wizardmaxx · 16 Feb 2007 at 15:19

You'll probably find that it's a compatibility issue and if you used the memory in a different mobo that it would work at 4-4-4-12 (ie memory fine). Similarly if you installed different memory in your mobo it will run 100% (ie mobo fine)

VooVoo · 16 Feb 2007 at 15:23

well hehe couple new games have come today , but i'll see about giving your idea a test over this weekend and see how i do.

Also what do i set the FSB to on the CPU setting, i have 3 settings

1086 (i think its 1086 its 10xxsomthing)
533
800

the CPU is Defaulted to the top one and when i've been doing the RAM i've gone for the 800 since i'm guess thats what i have to set since its a 800hz ram

wizardmaxx · 16 Feb 2007 at 15:28

Depends if you want to overclock. Setting the memory to 667 will give you headroom to overclock the cpu to 1278fsb resulting in a memory speed of 800 (ie memory not overclocked at all)

And its not technically a fsb of 1066. Its actually a fsb of 266 quad pumped to 1066 and the DDR2 - 266x2 = 533 and then runs on a multiplier of 1.5 to get to 800.

VooVoo · 16 Feb 2007 at 15:50

I'm not that interested in Overclocking, just want my RAM to run at the speed it was advertised at