What should I do?

**Vanquisher** · January 19, 2007, 07:58 PM

Well i couldn't find the memory ratio thing on my BIOS, so by increasing the MEMCLK on this nifty program should that work or should I do it slowly as the fsb is at 260mhz already. I'm also suprised because the memory is set at 400mhz (200) in the BIOS. Its already clocked to 260mhz btw from 233mhz. I know it can run at 200mhz because it should be running at that speed anyway, if it wasn't for my dodgy mothrboard:hmmm:

**sdjenkyn** · January 19, 2007, 08:20 PM

if its not already reading your clock setting correctly id scrap the program especially when your bios is reading it right . This program is not reading your mem correctly but you can try manually setting it up there and see what it does , as long as you are not changing volts you should be fine......personally find most of these programs are junk.

**Vanquisher** · January 19, 2007, 08:24 PM

No, the thing is it is reading it right, CPU-Z tells me that my memory is running at 133mhz when i have a 200fsb, my motherboard doesn't seem to have a setting to change the ratio which is wierd. it does have a setting which you can change from 133, 166 or 200 but that never makes a difference at all.

**sdjenkyn** · January 19, 2007, 08:33 PM

My apologies , your mb therefore accepts ddr400 but does not show thats whats slotted when the splash screen comes up after booting or exiting bios , right? Or the correct clock value. Go ahead and set the clock value to 200 and see if you notice a change...shouldnt crash anything and if it does reset your bios and forget about the program. If it works maybe we can adjust your voltage to it at that point and see if that impacts performance.

**Doono** · January 20, 2007, 06:25 AM

are you sure that every stick of ram you have in your system is DDR400? If one is a lower speed it throttles every other stick of ram.

**Vanquisher** · January 20, 2007, 09:12 AM

They're both exactly the same make and model.

It worked! I set my processor and timings to clock speeds and set the mem to 200 and CPU-Z tells me it is in fact at 200

I feel so silly i've been running on underclocked memory for 6 months. I can now begin overclocking again from this speed and see where i get.

EDIT:
I played around quite abit and managed to keep my fsb the same (265mhz), decrease the core volatage, and then i kept the memory timing at 2, and increased the clock to 150mhz, meaning a total of 198mhz with the fsb at 265

I am so so pleased with the results and it seems to be running stable, the cpu temp is at 37c which is much lower than before (probably becuase of the lower voltage). I'll test it on prime95 overnight and if it turns out a little unstable I can always raise the voltage again

But the mem should have no trouble as it is designed to run at 200mhz as stock anyway. Here's some pics from CPU-Z just to show off

There are 2 512 sticks of memory btw.

**sdjenkyn** · January 20, 2007, 11:36 AM

I would suggest bumping your voltage back up anyway since most ddrs were designed to accept the higher voltage , it should also make your ram more stable , now overclocking your voltage is a different matter.