Hi Guys,

I recently just built my first PC and am new to this. Slowly but surely I'm going through all the diagnostics to try and optimize my system. I think I've just unconvered a problem with the memory.

I got 2GB of the OCZ DDR2 800 Rev 2, CAS 4, CL 4-4-4-15
(CAS-TRCD-TRP-TRAS)
http://www.ocztechnology.com/produ [...] al_channel

I ran CPU-Z as someone here suggested. I uploaded images of the output:
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/2246/memsnr9.jpg
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/942/mems1yd0.jpg
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/5730/cpu1rg7.jpg
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/5439/cpu2va1.jpg

It appears that my memory is 267 Mhz at CAS 5. I'm new to this, but I paid for DDR2 800 Mhz at CAS 4!!! Could someone please take a look, and advise me where it should be at stock. I'll get to OC'ing another day. Thanks guys!

FishBoi

Update:

I did get some info on this, and apparently I need to set the timings and voltage manually. I really have no idea how to do this. I've included a screen shot of someone else's BIOS to build on:
http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cach [...] ...opic.as

TO SUM UP:
-I need to know what speed I should be running the RAM at? I know there is some multplier involved which means that increasing RAM speed could actually decrease performance. What speed and timings should I set it to to get optimal stock performance (without OC'ng)?
-how do I know what voltage I need to set it to, to get the desired speed stated above?
-how do I punch the timings in. I read somewhere that the order of the timings in the P5W DH BIOS are different to the stardard format listed on RAM modules (although swapping a 4 and 4 around makes no diffs, just need to know for future OC plans)
-what do I need to put in for DRAM write recovery time?
-hyperpath 3?
-DRAM throttling?
-basically any other settings I need to change on that screen?
-SPD DRAM timing setting? what do I do there?

THANKS GUYS!!!!

DDR2-800 4-4-4-15 timing (DDR2-800 = 400MHz bus clock).

The web page you linked to says 1.9-2.0V, so try 1.9V first, run thorough memtest86+ and PRIME95 stress tests to see if that works. If any errors, try 2.0V, run the stress tests again.

Sorry, I'm not familiar with your MB, so I can't help out on the other details. Why not post a screen shot of your BIOS instead of some random BIOS?

I'll look into it tonight. Not at my PC during the day (boo). Thanks for the tips. I'll have to take a photo of the screen, not sure if you can take a screenshot in the BIOS

It's pretty complicated. Someone said that the RAM needs to run at 2.1 in another post. That's pretty high I think.

I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow morning. Thanks again.