bilbat, I'm increasingly frustrated by the lack of XMP and SPP info. I don't understand why this info isn't immediately available to anyone interested.
I think I may know the reasoning behind this, but I don't like it, or agree with it... I'm pretty sure they simply don't want another seven questions (times however many thousands of users) added to their support load. You've been answering enough questions here to know that, for probably three quarters of the issues, the plain and simple answer is: RTFM! They just don't want users 'dabbling' in these additional settings, assuming that most really don't know what they are for, and aren't willing to learn. A lot of what I try to do here is to (hopefully) 'illuminate' many of the more technical issues in a modern system in terms that can be understood... My belief concerning documentation is that there can never be too much! (I am kind of 'taking care' of fairly elderly parents here - and I do most of the baking - my mom and I laugh about "no such thing as 'too sweet' or 'too much chocolate' "
) This is the major reason that I stick with Intel - I've posted this before:
I know a lot of arcane BS about Intel processors - cause they're the only ones who
document everything! If you wanna know how many Lahore pigeons crap on the roof of the Santa Clara fab each year, not only can you find it in a PDF somewhere (but
where -
that's the skill!) on their web site, but there's probably a three year plan documented to change their feeding habits, so they crap a lighter color, causing the roof to reflect more sunlight, and cut down on the air-conditioning costs... Every time I try to find out something about an AMD BIOS for someone, I see this business about "update AGESA three point five point three point nine point more digits than pi", and I've been randomly trying for months just to find out what 'AGESA'
is - bah - no luck! (I hate acronymns anyway - the only one that ever sticks in my head is back from the days when they finally got completely out of hand with 'PCMCIA' -
people
can't
memorize
computer
industry
acronymns!) And you don't wanna even get me started about nVidia! As far as I can figure, nVidia is actually a front company for the CIA/NSA - if you go looking
there for documentation,
they'll have
you investigated to find out why the hell
you're looking for
their documents!
I think that if they posted this information, along with a cogent, understandable explanation of
what they exist
for - it would, ultimately,
subtract from their support load - but I can't prove it, and I don't know how to get hold of anyone at the manufacturing/marketing level who could effect such a policy... And, as I've mentioned, this info is
increasingly important to the new platforms that incorporate the memory controller into the processor, giving infinitely more 'flexibility' to memory configuration; with memory controller hubs, the
major function of fast RAM was simply to allow you to raise your system clock past 400 MHz without 'overrunning' your 800 RAM at the lowest 2.0 (1:1 bus ratio) multiplier; now, you can 'diddle' throughput directly - which means you
need to know all of the RAM timings,
and, at various speeds...
)!!
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