New motherboard memory issue

I've just replaced my motherboard with an MS-7125 (as in sig), [from an MSI RX480M2-IL/MS-7093]. Problem is that according to CPU-Z my memory is now only running at 158MHz Cas2.5. With my old motherboard it ran fine at 200Mhz Cas3. Is this a limitation with my new m/board or do I need to fix things in BIOS.

I was having some problems with my old m/board and it needed to go, but now I'm kind of worried I've just gone and downgraded!

I originally put them in dimm 1 & 3 (green & green) but it showed up in cpu-z as single channel, so I put them in dimm 1 & 2 (green & purple) and it then showed up as dual channel, nice, but only 158MHz. Anyway after finishing up reinstalling everything I got tired and went to bed. I wake up today and find now that it's running happily at 201MHz so I guess I must have just missed something, sorry. However, one other thing is bothering me now... the command rate is showing up as 2T, any reason this might be?? Other figures show as:

CAS Latency 3.0
RAS to CAS Delay 3
RAS Precharge 3
Cycle Time 8
Bank Cycle Time 11
DRAM Idle timer 16
command Rate 2T

Just had a look at my bios. Under Cell (an MSI thing) it tells me the memory voltage is 2.65V, I hope this is okay cos when I bought the memory (2 x 512MB) the crucial website listed it as:

DDR PC3200 • CL=3 • UNBUFFERED • NON-ECC • DDR400 • 2.6V • 64Meg x 64 <-- pasted from website


Under the DRAM menu, under Advanced Chipset Features, Timing mode is set to Auto, funny thing is it states; Memory Clock @ 200MHz and CAS latency @ 2.5 even though cpu-z puts the CAS @ 3. All the other settings are marked as Auto except; Row Cycle Time @ 12T and Row Refresh Cycle Time @ 24T. But there's no mention of command rate!

As you can probably tell I'm not very clued up about memory, so thanks for you help!

No such mention in my manual, but I shall pop back to the bios and have another look.

not sure if it mentions what your looking for but this is a good toms guide to a BIOS.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2006/01/04/bios_from_a_to_z1/page11.html
remember your looking for the command rate setting.

sorry i have never used it. who makes your bios BTW.

edit: just looked up the maual for your mobo online. it appears that you have to set user config to maual before you can set command rate. look up page 3-12 of you manual and it will tell you there.

thats shocking. if you get stuck pop onto msi's site and download the manual. you'll need adobe which i'm sure you'll have.

something not right there. maybe you should e-mail MSI and ask for an explaination. they cant use the wrong manual online. perhaps it just doesn't have it.

its a shame as using 1T command rate can greatly improve performance.

Be careful with that 1-2T command some mobo's will crash if it is changed form the default,don't know why, check with your mobo maker 1st...luck...