Confused

[Rob_J]

G’day all, I’m a first time poster but long time lurker and I’d like to pick your brains as mine seem to have gone to mush.

I’m not a complete noob when it comes to PC’ing, but I almost am … think of me as ‘two short planks’.

These are my system spec’s:…

OCZ 600W PSU
Asus P5QL/EPU mobo
Core 2 Quad Q9400 2.66 GHz (Yorkfield)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 PRO Rev.2
4GB Kingston HyperX PC-8500 – 1066 MHz ram
500GB Seagate Barracuda SATA II
250GB Seagate Barracuda SATA II
Gainward nVidia 8800 GTS 640 GDDR3
Sony 24X DVD R/RW SATA
Win 7 Home Premium 64bit

Here’s my enquiry …

As you can see, I have 4GB Kingston HyperX PC-8500 – 1066 CL 7-7-7-20 @2.2V. I ‘ve manually set the CL to 7-7-7-20 in the BIOS and set the Voltage to 2.2 (ASUS BIOS shows it as ‘Memory Over Voltage’), but in cpu-z it shows the SPD tab as PC2-6400 5-5-5-18 @1.8V.

Can someone please point out what I’m missing here as it’s driving me nuts.

Thanks,
Rob

 

[Rob_J]

Hi lads,

thanks for the suggestions, it seems as though my ram isn't fully compatible with my mobo (note to self, do more research next time ya lump!).

I've tried Memset, bios upgrade (mine already has the latest), setting timings through bios and a whole lot of suggestions I found on other forums all to no avail. I'll just live with what I've got till the time comes when I can upgrade again, it's no biggie, the ram is showing as 1066 in bios, and PC2-6400 in cpu-z but all's running ok.

Many thanks for trying to help.

Rob