New rig seems sluggish.

Arterion

Arterion

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My new rig (shown in my signature, all timings except FSB set to 'AUTO') seems a little slow in windows; booting into it it takes a bit longer than I'd like (the start button, quicklaunch and system tray are all blanked out for a little while and programs are very slow to respond for a minute or so after) and generally (even when it's been on for hours) some folder navigation seems sluggish; I go to open some folders and there's a second or so pause/freeze before it actually opens it up- very annoying, and not something that my 3500+ did...

I wanted to blame my BIOS settings for the RAM but I fail to believe this could be the problem as when I manually set my timings to the standard 4-4-4-15 it got even MORE sluggish (the AUTO mode seems to have them at 5-4-5-9).

All drivers installed properly and this is a clean XP install with all updates on board.

Any suggestions?
 
Timings of the RAM would be 4-4-4-12 not 4-4-4-15.


Have you ran any benchmarks to compare you scores to other peoples?
 
If your overclocking your FSB with the memory speeds at auto the board my select a really low memory divider which could reduce the memory bandwidth but not as badly as you have described, maybe set this manually?
 
jak731 said:
If your overclocking your FSB with the memory speeds at auto the board my select a really low memory divider which could reduce the memory bandwidth but not as badly as you have described, maybe set this manually?
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What should my settings be?
 
Hmm, here's the thing with the current release of CPU-Z; it doesn't seem to like my mobo/BIOS as it reports i have 2048mb (correct) in Dual channel mode (also correct) DDR3 ram (clearly incorrect) at a frequency of 375MHz (correct) FSB:DRAM 1:1 (correct) but my timings are showing 32-6-14-13 on CPU-Z's memory tab.

I'm thinking this is likely just a BIOS reading issue; I believe the board can support DDR3 but just doesn't have the sockets for it and it's causing some conflict which is making CPU-Z read wrong, and there are no BIOS updates for this board as of yet.

There are some more memory timing options in my BIOS for which I do not know the correct setting; they are TWR, TRFC, TWTR, TRRC & TRTP. Can someone enlighten me?
 
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