Ram problem!

Th3D0n · 2 Sep 2009 at 16:16

Admiral Huddy said:
Most motherboards don't "officially" support PC2-8500 but you should still be able to select a DRAM frequency nearest or at 533MHz (1066MHz effective). Are you sure it's not in the drop down list?

There isnt a drop down

Big.Wayne · 2 Sep 2009 at 16:18

Real memory speed= 533MHz - Effective DRR2 speed= 1066MHz

I would play with the High Speed Memory option to see what is does and if it helps?

Latest BIOS?

I can't see any obvious problem apart from old chipset or maybe the kingston doesn't work nice with it?

I suppose its worth manually boosting the vDimm & Nortbridge voltage.

DDR2-1066 would have been the preserve of the uBer rich when that board came out, if indeed it was for sale at all . . .

Th3D0n · 2 Sep 2009 at 16:49

Big.Wayne said:
Real memory speed= 533MHz - Effective DRR2 speed= 1066MHz

I would play with the High Speed Memory option to see what is does and if it helps?

Latest BIOS?

I can't see any obvious problem apart from old chipset or maybe the kingston doesn't work nice with it?

I suppose its worth manually boosting the vDimm & Nortbridge voltage.

DDR2-1066 would have been the preserve of the uBer rich when that board came out, if indeed it was for sale at all . . .

I mean it shows Effective DRR2 speed

Iv tryed playing with the High Speed Memory option with no luck and iv got the Latest BIOS

and manually boosting the vDimm & Nortbridge voltage.

Big.Wayne · 2 Sep 2009 at 19:24

Well that's it then . . .your out of luck!

I'm sure the Ram is fine, probability is that your circa 2006 chipset isn't playing ball with fast memory. Do some searching on google for reviews of your motherboard and see what other people did? . . . perhaps your board is an early revision and the later boards were ok with DDR2-1066?

It does state only DDR2-800 on the Gigabyte 965p-ds3 webpage although it has the right options in BIOS to help it doesn't seem to work :confused:

Th3D0n · 3 Sep 2009 at 00:54

Dam it!
oh well thats it. Iv had a quick google all i can find is sites saying it dosnt suport it and sites saying it works with it!

Jonnygrunge · 3 Sep 2009 at 02:01

I 've got a gigabyte mobo, to hit 533MHz or 1066Mhz DDR on the nose, I'm sure I was ocing to 3GHz at the time, 333 x 9 with a 8:5 ratio (1.6) that should give you 333 x 1.6 = 532.8

Th3D0n · 3 Sep 2009 at 04:55

Jonnygrunge said:
I 've got a gigabyte mobo, to hit 533MHz or 1066Mhz DDR on the nose, I'm sure I was ocing to 3GHz at the time, 333 x 9 with a 8:5 ratio (1.6) that should give you 333 x 1.6 = 532.8

different chipset then mine!

lainux · 3 Sep 2009 at 10:36

hmmmm