Need Help with OCZ memory!!

[Rawperro]

I am new to this so try to bare with me

I bought a set of 2GB OCZ DDR2-800 (PC2 6400) Model: OCZ2P8002GK

I put them on a Asus P5W DH Deluxe motherboard and when the system boots up it reads the memory as PC2-4300. I also checked the frequency on CPU-Z and it is 267 MHZ.

I am not sure why it is running at a lower speed. Could it be something in the bios?

Any Help is really appreciated!!

Thank You

 

[Mondoman]

Everything is normal. You are running at a default speed programmed into the module's SPD. To get the advertised speed, you will have to manually set the memory bus speed, the timings/latencies, and perhaps the memory/DIMM voltage. These values will be listed on the spec sheet from the memory manufacturer. See this post for more background info:
http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=1249881#1249881

 

[sruane]

You need to set the memory multiplier to 3 if you want DDR2-800 at that FSB speed

 

[fishboi]

Only use the 1:1 mem devider with this board. I've found that anything else causes it to continuously crash.

Disable SPD, and manually set the timings to 4-4-4-12, and set the voltage for the RAM to 2.1V

Has anyone OC'ed this RAM yet???? How high can you take it up in voltage, and what timings can one max it out to??? I've found very little info on this.

 

[JMecc]

You can set them to 800 (i.e. 400MHz external) in the BIOS. Check for the settings on the package, but I think you will have to set ALL of these MANUALLY in the BIOS:

Memory to 800MHz
Timings to 4-5-4-15
Voltage to 2.1V

According to OCZ's site (http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/memory/ocz_ddr2_pc2_6400_platinum_dual_channel), these are rated to go up to 2.2V under warranty so if this is unstable at 2.1V, try 2.15, then 2.2V, then call OCZ if still not working; they are pretty helpful.

Also, I found that even after setting everything & getting it working, CPU-Z still incorrectly identifies the timings so don't worry about that.

Jo

 

[Rawperro]

Thanks a lot for all of your guys help!!

I got my memory to run at 800MHz