EchoSex

Heyo - After some talks with ASUS and twinking with my BIOS settings, I'm almost ready to reinstall my OS for (hopefully) the last time for optimization.

Anywho, before I do, I want to make better use of my RAM.

I'm currently using four sticks of this, Corsair ValueSelect, and I'm having trouble figuring out what my "timings" should be, or rather just my settings under my BIOS.

I've tried to mimic other's settings, but with a lot of failures, and I'm really stressing towards what I should do..

My current specs are:

ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe (Socket 939)
AMD 64 3200+ (OC'd 2.6 oddly enough)
Two EVGA 7800GT (485/2.4)
A 500watt PSU
4 sticks of Crosair ValueSelect 512mb DDR400 PC3200
Samsung 160gb 7200rpm HD

I think that's all that could possibly be important, if I'm wrong lemme know.

So, any advice on what my settings should be?

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twajetmech

I believe the timings are 2.5-3-3-8....from Corsair,
Part Number » VS512MB400

Type » DDR-400 (PC-3200C25)

Size » 512MB

Latency » 2.5-3-3-8-2T

Package » 184-pin DIMM

Heat Spreader » None

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TheMatt

Hi,

Those are the default timings. You might be able to tweak them to 2-3-2-5. But you will have to run Memtest86 from my sig on each stick for 10+ hours individualy with the modified timings to ensure stability.

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adamb_135

If you don't want to go through testing it all and stuff, there should be a [Auto] setting for the timings, that auto detects the timings.look around in your bios.

linderman

you going to run into a wee bit of a headache with the fact that the memory controller is built onto the CPU of socket 939 AMD cpus as such I doubt you set-up is able to run four sticks of memory in 400mz mode in the bios, it will want to drop to 333 (unless you are runnign 4 sticks of 256mb ram) the problem is corrected by CPU's with E6 stepping like the Toldeo cores (4400+ X2)

you have a decent overclock there, as long as you didnt have to ramp up the vcore to the cpu too much to get, you should be fine ????

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Kalim

Yeah twajetmech gave the default timings (I also have 2 of them). I can easily run them at 2-(?)-2-5 1T at DDR400MHz, but its with an Intel P4 not an AMD platform. Normally they OC well too, although not more than 150MHz at max.

twajetmech

Unfortunately, to run 4 memory modules you will most likely default to 2T, and the resultant hit in performance, if you can tighten the timings up to say 2-2-3-6 or 2-2-3-5@ 2.7V-2.75V (3 is cas to ras) that would be very good, though like TheMatt stated I'd reccomend running memtest to verify its stability outside of their default timmings and fsb rating....remember to OC slowly, you can damage your mobo OC'ing.

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mattlock

I have a 3200 venice core and had it OCed with the same ram. At a 260mhz FSB you'll need to have your ram spd set at 166 and you'll probably have to to run the timings a little loose. My CVS ram would only do 220mhz (260fsb puts you at 217mhz on the ram) and I think my timings had to be 3-3-3-8 2T to run at that speed. I was able to run my 3200 @ 2.6 prime stable though, with those timings.

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linderman

mattlock has the recipe you should try IMHO

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