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Confused, help!

Anemuron

Anemuron

Anemuron

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Hello guys :)

Today I've upgraded my old Athlon II 245 Regor to a Phenom II 955 Deneb and everything is fine apart from 2 things:

1. FSB/HTT clock isn't 200 MHz but 200.9MHz which results in 2009MHz HT Link speed. I tried to set all the clocks and multipliers in Bios manually but even if I specifically specified everything, it still ends up being 200.9MHz
Funny fact is then if I turn cool n quiet off, this goes up to 201.2MHz or something similar.

I've heard that you need to keep HT Link as close to 2000 as possible. is the difference my clock causes okay or does/will it affect the performance of my machine ?

Screen:
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(the vCore is lowered on purpose, I undervolted it because I am using stock speeds and at this voltage it is stable and much cooler. The fsb clock is unaffected by the voltage, I checked)

2. My RAM memory seem to have gone slower after the upgrade.

Here is an old/new screen from the benchmark:

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Is this normal ? the RAM multiplier and CAS latency has been untouched as you can see on the screens.

Waiting for some answers and ideas :)
 
dont worry about the HT Link, 2009 will make little to no difference,

ram will always default to stock settings upon installing, you manually need to set the speed and timings you want that the ram supports, as your screenshots aren't loading, i can't even guess, try using photobucket tbh, Tinypic is trash :)
 
ahh, your rams running at it's optimum speed then i would guess, although i've never heard of or seen DDR3 1339?

what ram is it exactly?
 
higher bus? so the fact the main bus is running at 200.9 does that to your ram? lol

really wouldn't worry about i dont think,
 
I just dont get it, its the same ram with identical voltage,latency,multiplier and frequency. The only difference is the processor but why would it make the memory slower.
 
For some reason the RAM latency has increased despite the timings supposedly being the same.

Download CPU-Z and click on the memory tab (not the SPD tab) to check the speed and timings reported by Everest are correct.

If everyting is as it should be then that suggests you new CPU has a less efficient memory controller than your old CPU.
 
Surveyor said:
For some reason the RAM latency has increased despite the timings supposedly being the same.

Download CPU-Z and click on the memory tab (not the SPD tab) to check the speed and timings reported by Everest are correct.

If everyting is as it should be then that suggests you new CPU has a less efficient memory controller than your old CPU.
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Ok, I checked it and it shows the same CAS timings.

However, I think I've come to a conclusion that maybe its actually the benchmark being wrong for some reason because I just checked and in the Windows Experience Index my RAM rating went up by few percent(5%-7%) after upgrading the processor :)

Thanks for the answers! You can consider thread closed :)
 
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