Memory confusion

[holty]

Hi,

I am a bit confused with my RAM, when I bought my PC the memory which was supplied was suppose to have timings of 5-5-5-12 but after doing a CPU-Z scan of my system it is telling me it's 5-5-5-18 is this bad or not as I’m a complete novice and I’m thinking I have been scanted.

 

[V|per]

what ram do you have?

It may just need you to go into the bios and set the tRAS to 12, or, if it'sstock value is actually 18, then go moan at the people who sold you the ram/computer.

 

[holty]

Not sure what make of RAM it is, but when I configured it I had the choose of High Performance 800MHz DDR2 5-5-5-12 or Extreme Performance 800MHz Low-Latency 4-4-4-12, but I seem to of ended up with different timings altogether, how would I know what the stock value is?

 

[holty]

Sorry for being such a noob but I have now changed it to 5-5-5-12, but now when I run CPU-Z it is showing it correct in the memory tab but different in the SPD tab can anyone help me plaese is this correct? I don't really get it

 

[Cob]

The SPD is pre-programmed into the memory and doesn't change.

So everything's normal, tho you can probably set the timings to 4-4-4-12, providing you set the correct voltage (probably 2.1v).

 

[Tetras]

As Cob said, SPD is a chip on the memory that stores what settings it can be configured at by the motherboard.

It is not what the memory is rated at or what it is currently running at.

Often the SPD tab will show loose, standardised timings that are much slower than it is capable of.

 

[holty]

Thanks a lot I will give it a bash, its realy nice to get the help from guys on here.

Cheers again holty