Bus speed problems

[Chal]

Hi,
time to show my complete ignorance of hardware.

Just built a computer using an Asus A7V333 motherboard and an Athalon XP 2000+ - everything's running fine, except the memory bus is running at 266MHz. It's rated to run at 333MHz but i can't seem to get that. When i run a memory bandwidth test, it puts the memory bandwidth efficiency at around 70%.

Does anyone have any suggestions on solving this?

Thanks!
Steve

 

[o1die]

If your board supports it, try upping the ddram voltage to 2.6 or 2.7.

 

[tilepusher]

Hey C,

First off, do you have PC2700 DDR installed or is it PC2100? If it is in fact PC2700 DDR, Have you tried going into the Bios & setting the Memory Bus to run at +33 mhz? Have you set any of the Bios settings?

Peace Out..............tile

god knows your entire system setup & he would answer your questions if he could just stop laughing

 

[Oracle]

There's no point running your RAM at 333Mhz.
Remember that a system is as fast as its slowest component.
Since FSB is 266Mhz, you'd gain nothing trying to push only the memory without overclocking the FSB.


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[PCcashCow]

Agreed,
Consider stepping the bus before you try to squeeze any more water out of that rock .

-Tim

It seems that every time I reboot my wallet gets smaller.