Important questions on timing

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Last response: April 1, 2006 12:32 AM in Overclocking

xxeddydxx

March 31, 2006 12:21:57 AM

hello guys i have recently Oc ed my Cpu to 3.2. while i messed with the bios i found this out. My dram freqeuncy was set on auto, making my fsb

ram to 3:4 and the ram frequecy goes up to 284. But when i change it too 400 mhz the timings go to 1:1 drops too 216 mhz. Are these normal and if they are which settings should i keep .
thanks in advance

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Scout

March 31, 2006 4:04:17 AM

You want to keep the faster speed. You're probably using DDR2 533 memory, right? That want's to run normally at 266 MHz. and the "auto" setting will use the 3:4 ratio to get the correct speed off your 200 MHz. FSB. Moving it back to 1:1 will underclock the memory and you lose performance.

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xxeddydxx

March 31, 2006 4:30:49 AM

thank you so much so i should keep it on auto
and one more thing does anyone know how to lock my pci thing to 33/66/133 can someone help

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Scout

April 1, 2006 12:32:24 AM

Each board seems different in how they handle locking the PCI bus. Some give you a specific setting in your BIOS while others don't. Usually the setting is under "advanced features" or someplace like that.

I believe ECS combines this setting with the "Auto" on your memory. Does it say on that setting anything about "autodetect DIMM & PCI bus"?

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