Wanna test a quick Memory read/write boost, if your Board supports it?

If anyone is interested, believe it or not, this could boost your reads and writes by a small amount, couple of hundred.

If your board supports manual strap to north bridge adjustments, and you have it set at 400 Mhz because your OC is good, try simply setting it to the 333 strap and then selecting the memory speed that it was nearest to. (It wont allow for a similar selection if your memory is already high, or you are running a berserk divider, which is useless anyways.)

Technically, your MoBo May be on Auto, and using this strap, however, most of us are in sync at 400 FSB anyways, so would use the 400 Mhz strap, and so would Auto, just change it to 333, and select 801 Mhz, or its equivalent.

Make sure you Read/Write/Copy/Latency test your memory first! Then go into the bios and try it.

If its not simply using the strap to force a Trd change, then I did something else...

::Scratches head.::

And who knows what that was...

Mention if you get the speed boost...

--Lupi

I believe this applies to most P35-DS3x and DS4 boards?

Why bother for such a small increase. It's not worth the aggravation, unless your bored senseless.

This would certainly help the benchmark sensitive ppl, who wish to have the best benchmark #s.

here is some junk to read!

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdo [...] i=3208&p=6

Here you go.

SiSoftware Sandra Benchmarks

1333/667 3-3-3-10 tRD5
Int Buff'd iSSE2 Memory Bandwidth : 6.03GB/s
Float Buff'd iSSE2 Memory Bandwidth : 6.03GB/s

1333/667 3-3-3-10 tRD(Auto)
Int Buff'd iSSE2 Memory Bandwidth : 5.98GB/s
Float Buff'd iSSE2 Memory Bandwidth : 5.98GB/s

1333/667 3-3-3-10 tRD5
Memory (Random Access) Latency : 83ns

1333/667 3-3-3-10 tRD(Auto)
Memory (Random Access) Latency : 84ns


1333/800 4-4-4-12 tRD5
Int Buff'd iSSE2 Memory Bandwidth : 6.27GB/s
Float Buff'd iSSE2 Memory Bandwidth : 6.29GB/s

1333/800 4-4-4-12 tRD(Auto)
Int Buff'd iSSE2 Memory Bandwidth : 5.90GB/s
Float Buff'd iSSE2 Memory Bandwidth : 5.91GB/s

1333/800 4-4-4-12 tRD5
Memory (Random Access) Latency : 80ns

1333/800 4-4-4-12 tRD(Auto)
Memory (Random Access) Latency : 89ns


1333/1000 5-5-5-15 tRD5
Int Buff'd iSSE2 Memory Bandwidth : 6.52GB/s
Float Buff'd iSSE2 Memory Bandwidth : 6.54GB/s

1333/1000 5-5-5-15 tRD(Auto)
Int Buff'd iSSE2 Memory Bandwidth : 6.54GB/s
Float Buff'd iSSE2 Memory Bandwidth : 6.56GB/s

1333/1000 5-5-5-15 tRD5
Memory (Random Access) Latency : 73ns

1333/1000 5-5-5-15 tRD(Auto)
Memory (Random Access) Latency : 73ns

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