Serious problem with my Dual Channel RAMs

[kosmiq]

Well actually nVidia System Utility is a realtime overclocking utility made for nForce 2 chipsets among others.
I took the liberty of supplying a few screenshots here simply to give proof.

http://upl.silentwhisper.net/uplfold...inxp2gbram.JPG
http://upl.silentwhisper.net/uplfold...systemutil.JPG

As you can see I am currently using 2gb RAM on my nForce 2 motherboard as shown by windows, POST and so on.
About speed, as you can see on the second picture (nVidia System Utility) the RAM frequency is currently 399MHz DDR @ CAS 2 with the other timings as you can see on the picture.

nVidia System Utility is a program developed by nVidia and is free for download. It supports real-time monitoring of voltages, speed and temperatures. It also supports real-time changing of voltage, FSB, Timings and more.

[DABhand]

Aha thats not the frequency im talking about..

So we are both right in our debate..

I was talking about bus speed from Memory to CPU

[kosmiq]

Haha are you serious? We have been talking about different things the whole time? HAHA!!!!!

Then it is not strange that we had such disagreement...
Feels good to have that solved...

I had no idea the bus between CPU and mem was lowered when using 2gb of RAM on the other hand.

Now that this has been solved we can all be friends and nice again...
A little thought, lets say the communication between CPU and mem is 200MHz standard, gets lowered to 166MHz when using 2gb RAM then it should be easily solved by upping the speed to 201MHz.
On nForce 2 this speed is not changeable as far as I know but on the nForce 4 is should the HT-bus right?

[Luciel]

Ok heres an example of an nforce user

My amd ASUS AK7NX8E-Deluxe motherboard (nForce 2) 2 Ram sticks of 512mb DDR400 each (Dual Channel). So in total 1024mb ram, when the pc starts, it says 1024mb memory running at 166mhz, ok correct me if im wrong, but i payed extra so it was ddr400 double channel so it did what it was meant to do, not for it to run at 166mhz, anything i can do about it?

[DABhand]

I know its a risk, but have you updated the motherboard firmware?

Perhaps its a brand the motherboard doesnt like or know.

[henry]

Is that the right model number for your mobo, should it be 'A7N8X-E Deluxe'?

What CPU have you got, not too hot on AMD but Intel has to have the CPU and memory at the same speeds.

ie PC3200 CPU 533 FSB, memory speed 333.
PC3200 CPU 800 FSB, memory speed 400.


Downloading th manual for the 'A7N8X-E Deluxe'.

[kosmiq]

Check if what your memory speed is set too in BIOS.
It can be set to 1:1, 1:2, 3:2, 4:5, 6:5 and a few more.
1:1 means that CPU fsb and memory speed will run at the same.
3:2 means that mem speed will be fsb*3 and CPU speed will be *2 or something like that.

Can't really remember how it was of the A7N8X Deluxe right now, but check the bios. There will be an option to set it. It might also be due to Automatic Options or something, set it to Advanced or User and change it.
That should do it, if that does not solve the problem take a look in the forums at www.nforcershq.com