Some improvement tips please

lostbear · 16 Oct 2007 at 23:16

i just built a new rig, running on air cooling. Im not quite chuffed with the ram. 4GB of Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C5 G - i know its not using it all as its a 32bit op system, but it seems a little slow. also it appears to be running at 400mhz instead of 800mhz - bios reports its running at 800mhz in dual channel mode but both everest and cpu-z repor it running at 400mhz! have i missed something? is there a bios setting ive missed. everything is as it came out the boxes (its a self buid), apart from i flashed the bios to curent version. anyone know how i can get more welly out of the ram? its timings are: 5-5-5-18

my basic spec:

QuadCore Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700, 2666 MHz (10 x 267)
Asus Striker Extreme (2 PCI, 2 PCI-E x1, 3 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, nVIDIA nForce 680i SLI
3328 MB (Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C5 G DDR2-800 DDR2 SDRAM)
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX (768 MB)

cheers!

w3bbo · 16 Oct 2007 at 23:20

Your ram is running fine. CPU-Z and Everest report the ram speed correctly, its just you need to multiply it by 2.

As for making it quicker then it should be ok for a small boost to 900mhz(450mhz) with a voltage increase to 2.1v/2.2v

mk17 · 16 Oct 2007 at 23:22

400=800@DDR2.

[edit] out-gunned by w3bbo [/edit]

now how's about +100 fsb?

lostbear · 16 Oct 2007 at 23:24

cheers, ill give it a little nudge and see what happens.

lb

lostbear · 16 Oct 2007 at 23:26

mk17 said:
400=800@DDR2.

[edit] out-gunned by w3bbo [/edit]

now how's about +100 fsb?

yeah, id love to tweak more but its running on air with the stock cooler, so until ive got something more decent in there im not fiddling to much!

lostbear · 16 Oct 2007 at 23:31

ok heres the thing - everything runs flawlessly, all my games. but colin mcrae dirt, the menu system gets stuck occassionally but playing the actual game, it flies along no problem. Ive got a brand new clean SATA II seagate barracuda 16mb cache so it shouldnt blip! there for im guessing its something ther than the drives performance.

Chris Beard · 17 Oct 2007 at 14:35

Could be poor coding in the game. You will notice hard disk reads if the game waits on them even with RAID 0 raptors - hard drives are SLOW.