TWINX1024-4000PT - What speed ?

[sallyfields]

Hello all,
I recently built a new system utilizing Corsair's TWINX1024-4000PT Memory. I thought this was supposed to be PC4000 DDR500 memory. When I use CPU-Z to look at the settings it shows it as PC3700 with a Frequency of 200Mhz. Shouldn't this be PC4000 and shouldn't the Frequency be higher. I thought DDR400 ran at 200Mhz. Since this is DDR500 I would think it should run faster. Of course I could just be confused. The motherboard is an Asus P4c800-e Deluxe with all BIOS settings at default. Please help. I would hate to have spent that much on RAM for it to be underperforming.

Thanks all,

Duke

P.S. Not really sallyfields.

 

[Vapor]

Are you overclocking your system at all?? Just because it is rated at 250MHz doesn't mean that when you put it in you will run 250MHz.

RDRAM = ENEMY

 

[pIII_Man]

as said earlier you need to overclock your fsb to utilise the faster ram speed.

Also cpu-z and sisoft sandra frequently mis-detect ram, they both detect my pc150 as pc142.


If it isn't a P6 then it isn't a procesor
110% BX fanboy

 

[sallyfields]

Thanks for the input guys. I currently am not overclocking, but my intention when building this sytem is to overclock it. OK, so if it says it's running at 200Mhz then I times that by 2 to get the actual Data Rate Mhz of 400. Is that correct ? That would make sense I guess then that 250Mhz would then be a DataRate of 500Mhz. So is it just a matter of increasing the FSB speed and the RAM will atuomagically run faster ? Pardon my newbie questions. I have been doing a lot of reading of late on OC'ing and am coming to find out their are more variables than I had imagined.

Thanks again to all for the help,

Duke

P.S. Not really sallyfields.

 

[pIII_Man]

right


If it isn't a P6 then it isn't a procesor
110% BX fanboy