New build help

Sunny Squash · 4 Mar 2010 at 23:29

Hi I just recently built my first computer it has made a very big diffrence from my old computer. I have just discovered that my ram is running at 800mhz when i think it should be running at 1333mhz i have looked in the bios but i only have the choice to run it at 800 max.

here is my mobo http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-356-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1481

here is the ram http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-234-CS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=

I am running windows xp professinal

any help?

95thrifles · 5 Mar 2010 at 10:57

can you put up a pic of your bios page?

Vir · 5 Mar 2010 at 11:04

You can change it in the BIOS. It's probably something to do with DRAM Ratio/multiplier thingy. Maybe you need to unlock a part of the bios to manual settings. Like 95thrifles says, if you can put a picture of the bios page up people can help you easily. It IS possible.

Sunny Squash · 5 Mar 2010 at 14:22

How to I take pic of the BIOS?

shadowake · 5 Mar 2010 at 14:26

Sunny Squash said:
How to I take pic of the BIOS?

Not to make you feel silly for asking but... a camera :rolleyes:

mast3r · 5 Mar 2010 at 15:39

HAHA, Change the Ram setting to Unlinked in the bios?

Sunny Squash · 5 Mar 2010 at 15:41

heres one pick tell me if i need to get another.

I dont know what to take a pick of

shadowake · 5 Mar 2010 at 16:02

The memory speed is usually linked to the cpu FSB and multiplyer, you will probably need to change the settings for the cpu manually to get the higher memory speeds.

Redmint · 5 Mar 2010 at 16:20

"Memory: 4x DDR3 DIMM 1800(OC) / 1600(OC) / 1333 / 1066 / 800 MHz (Max. 16GB)"

Only thing I can think of is that it's showing the I/O clock speed not the 'actual' RAM speed. Which would mean the memory is actually running at 1600MHz...

Sunny Squash · 5 Mar 2010 at 18:17

still have no idear