I sent you some results off-list, they were long. 250mhz bus @5:4 is only about ~170mhz for your memory. If you can work it at the 3:2 setting you'd get more performance since the memory speed will be increased. You should be able to since PC3500 is DDR433 which is about 216mhz actual memory speed and a far cry from 170mhz. Check this out for a lot of info on your board. This is the last page of the thread. http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=1032283&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=&STARTPAGE=41
The Geil I have is the best buy now. The OCZ Gold is slightly faster, but its price does not justify the small performance gain. Either is best for 1:1 ratios, but for asynchronous operation there are other modules that are better suited. 1:1 is always most desirable. OCZ just released the PC4200EL which is currently the best bar none. Every time you make a change, run the benchmarks and compare them. Then you find out what the settings are doing. Thanks for the URL, will check it out. -Clint God Bless Us All Clint Hamilton, Owner Want to exchange links with us? http://OrpheusComputing.com ) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You are about where I am. I haven't bought any new memory specifically for this board. I'm running a 2.4 at 250 with Corsair XMS 3500 at 5:4, 2,6,3,3, 2.7 volts. I also have a set of Corsair XMS low latency that runs the same settings. Both sets fail at about 230 and I've been looking at getting some PC4000 DDR 500 memory so I can run 1:1. Haven't decided on which brand yet. I did discover that mem test runs without errors if I disable Command Per Clock(CPC) in the Game accelerator settings. Don't know what Asus has in the bios. One of my problems has been figuring out what all these turbo and accelerator settings are actually doing. Even at these settings this is really a fast machine. In video conversion it is nearly 1/3 faster than a P4 3.06 at 553. Have you run the Sandra memory benchmarks on it? What did you get? The blue screen you got is almost always memory. See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;315335&; . That article refers specifically to installation but the messages are the same. Don't know why you don't have a dump file. It may be because you've moved the page file to another drive. Have you tried moving the location of the dump file to that drive? I'm starting to get in over my head here. Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "OrpheusComputing.com" > So what do you think that screen image is? > > Yeah I know all about that memory. What are you using? I > spent months researching it before I bought it. I'm using Geil > Ultra Platinum PC4000 2x256mb DC kit. I wanted the OCZ Gold > PC4000, but it was $75 more!! They are both 2.5-4-4-7, but the > OCZ is a bit faster. "PAT" is enabled as is "Turbo" settings > which I think the latter is something like F1 or Streetracer > settings on the IC7. Regardless of memory settings, I can't > get more than 255mhz bus @ 1:1 from this 2.4C (for those that > don't know, that's P4 2.4ghz with 800mhz quad pumped bus. > Default bus is 200mhz and 255mhz makes it 3060mhz or 3.06ghz > roughly). Obviously I have a under achiever CPU since most are > getting 3.4ghz from that CPU. Same thing with the CPU:Memory > ratio at 3:2 or 5:4, which of course is slower than 1:1, so > it's not a memory limit issue. I was able to lower my timings > to 2.5-3-4-6 @DDR510/255mhz and it still runs fine. Geil is > guaranteed up to 2.9v, and they said it will work from > 2.6-2.9v, and it won't even boot @2.75v! So, I have to have it > set to the max of the mobo which is 2.85v. This is pretty > common with aggressive high end memory not booting at default > voltages. However, I've yet to fix the MemTest86 > problem...pages of errors REGARDLESS of settings and even at > default speeds. I need to find a way to determine if they are > CPU cache errors, mobo memory errors, or RAM errors. > > This was the first crash I had on it, and I'm more inclined to > believe it was a combo of all that removing, adding, > disabling/enabling of various HD's and controllers without > cleaning the registry or removing them from the device manager. > I'm not concerned about that now since this is just a test bed > for now and the HD will be reformatted again when I've decided > on the best combo's, hardware and settings. That's why I > didn't bother to "clean up" after each HD was tested. But I'd > still like to be able to find the log file describing that > crash. > -Clint ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
