Ok so I just got this new stick of ram for my ecs gf8200a mobo. It's the second stick of the same ram. I noticed there I could adjust voltage setting to get the most out of it and I saw it's recommended voltage was 2.3v. I went and dled cpuz to see what it the ram was running at before I changed anything and saw it was running at only 412.6mhz when it should be running at 1066 right? 2 sticks each at 533mhz should be 1066? So I'm thinking damn I could have had better speeds all this time if I wouldve just upped the voltage on the original stick. So then I went into the bios and upped the voltage from 1.9 to 2.26 (the next highest was 2.33 would that be better even though it's slightly over 2.3?). I then saved the settings and got back into windows and there was no change the DRAM Frequency (this is what i should be looking at right?) was still only 412.6. I also noticed then under the spd tab it says its only pc26400 when it's actually 8500.
Also I was looking in the system information and I noticed my available memory is only like 2.16gb when I have 4gb total, any way to get that higher?
Also I was looking in the system information and I noticed my available memory is only like 2.16gb when I have 4gb total, any way to get that higher?