Noob Question (Sorry!)

mossmotorsport · 25 Mar 2009 at 00:37

Hi all, bought myself an Asus P5Q motherboard with 2 sticks of the Kington Hyper X thats on offer. Now I have that running in dual channel which seems to be ok (not as fast I had hoped for - and also only a 5.5 vista rating), but my question is - I have one stick of 2GB DDR2 667 PC-5300-555-12 RAM knocking about. I put it in the system and it worked and recognised it as having 6GB of RAM total, but is this going to slow the PC down - as its no longer running dual channel?

Also does anyone have their Hyper X RAM show up as 5.5 within vista - when my older RAM showed up as 5.9? Strange.... Thanks in advance!

mossmotorsport · 25 Mar 2009 at 08:45

Thanks for the replies!

I have run CPUZ as I cant seem to get hold of a good version of PC Mark

The screenshot for CPUZ is below - but I dont understand it too well. But im guessing the DRAM frequency is running too low:

mossmotorsport · 25 Mar 2009 at 09:12

What about the max bandwidth? Should it not be 8500? Im just a little disappointed because this RAM seems to be no different from my other lower spec DDR2 RAM I had before

mossmotorsport · 25 Mar 2009 at 09:40

Strange - here is the stuff I have:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-039-KS

Im guessing its very unlikely that mines an incorrect set

mossmotorsport · 25 Mar 2009 at 12:37

Thanks very much for the replies, I will have a play around with the voltages later on. I am using 2x new hyper x sticks and 2 x 1gb older 5300 RAM now just to give me 6GB RAM which may make things even quicker, we shall have to see. Thanks again though.

mossmotorsport · 25 Mar 2009 at 22:04

Thanks guys - I tried changing the voltages but it didnt seem to make a lot of performance difference. I will just live with it I think. Thats for all the helpful posts though

mossmotorsport · 26 Mar 2009 at 13:34

I have attached screenshots of my bios settings, and a cpuz readout. You can see I have changed the voltage to 2.2v and the speed to 1066 in the bios, however cpuz still only reads 1.8v? It must be something really simple - surely?

mossmotorsport · 26 Mar 2009 at 14:46

Tried that - and it didnt fix anything unfortunatly - its really frustrating! Thanks for the feedback though

mossmotorsport · 26 Mar 2009 at 15:24

tibbsey said:
In the first image, I'd try upping the FSB frequency from 400 to 533 MHz.

It could be that this setting is stopping the increased RAM MHz from taking effect.

Will that not simply overclock the CPU though?

mossmotorsport · 27 Mar 2009 at 10:22

Here we go:

Thanks

mossmotorsport · 27 Mar 2009 at 11:36

How come it is not showing up as 8500 under max bandwidth? Other than that though, if you say its working correctly then maybe I finally set it up correctly! Thanks

mossmotorsport · 27 Mar 2009 at 14:02

Thanks haha - ive spent ages messing around with the settings! Never mind, need to do some cable management and then i'll be happy. Gotta love the new setup though, its nice and fast

mossmotorsport · 28 Mar 2009 at 10:53

Thanks tibbsey - much appreciated.