problem with Dual-vsta and Crucial Ballistix pc5300

Greenboi · 7 Feb 2007 at 19:48

Hey all, in desperate need of some help here!

I got my new ram twoday, 2gb of ddr2, and i heard that this ballistix stuff is good, so i was exited.

I installed it no problems, booted fine, all going okay, untill i check CPU-Z, this ram should run at 667mhz, its currently at 202mhz...what the hell?

Ive checked the BIOS, i have made sure its on DDRII 667, and it still doesnt work (sometimes it doesnt even show up any frequency in CPU-Z..)

Is there any explanation? Anything I am missing?

Im a noob, so please help me out!!

Dravic · 8 Feb 2007 at 03:11

Check that the memory compatibility option is switched off in the bios.

Greenboi · 8 Feb 2007 at 11:02

when i have it disabled CPU-Z doesnt report a frequency, its just blank, but with it enabled its now at 199mhz..

Darg · 8 Feb 2007 at 14:19

Disable it and try using Everest or another program to read your RAM speed.

That memory compatibility option basically just cuts the speed of the ram to about 3/4 of what it should be.

Greenboi · 8 Feb 2007 at 15:06

disabled it, used everest and its saying that its at 353mhz, DRAM:FSB ratio = 10:8

Ideas?

Edit; My CPU is overclocked.

Darg · 8 Feb 2007 at 20:45

See my post in the DUAL-VSTA thread. It seems that its set up right. It seems to be working nicely. Keep in mind that that 352 is doubled to 704 as it's DDR ram

Greenboi · 8 Feb 2007 at 20:55

ahh! You see i never knew that! Im such a noob

Thanks a lot for your help!!