Last year I built a cheap low power rig (to leave on 24/7 without generating much heat or sucking much juice) using a Gigabyte GA-M720-US3 mobo with an Athlon X2 4850e. The only thing that has always struck me as odd about is that the 800MHz DDR 2 is only running at 714MHz, since according to everest the mobo has set the ram's base clock speed as 1/7 of the CPU clock (2500/7) giving 357MHz (714 at Double Data Rate) rather than the expected 400MHz (800MHz@DDR2). Accordng to the BIOS (version F2) it's set to 800MHz... but as I say, only reporting 714MHz. Is there any way I can change this so that I can get what I paid for from the RAM?.... I wasn't really too bothered since it's not supposed to be a high-end rig... but would be nice to be able to use the RAM to it's proper capabillity.
What do you guys think would be the best way to do this without making it run too much hotter or more power hungry? Tried OCing the CPU a little so that the CPU/7 would be closer to 400MHz but it doesn't like it at all... am guessing that's why some CPU's were binned as low-power models anyway?
Maybe it would not give any noticeable difference to go up from DDR2-714 to DDR2-800 speed and I should just ignore it? What do you reckon?
What do you guys think would be the best way to do this without making it run too much hotter or more power hungry? Tried OCing the CPU a little so that the CPU/7 would be closer to 400MHz but it doesn't like it at all... am guessing that's why some CPU's were binned as low-power models anyway?
Maybe it would not give any noticeable difference to go up from DDR2-714 to DDR2-800 speed and I should just ignore it? What do you reckon?
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