PC3200 is supposed to scoot at 400MHz, but my Nvidia Force 2
motherboard balks. Could this be because the the memory is
CL3 .. or that the Nvidia chip set has problems with driving
2 double sided dimms ?? Or is there a bus problem between
AGP and mem.

In any case, I was very disappointed..


JC

"cawdam" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> PC3200 is supposed to scoot at 400MHz, but my Nvidia Force 2
> motherboard balks. Could this be because the the memory is
> CL3 .. or that the Nvidia chip set has problems with driving
> 2 double sided dimms ?? Or is there a bus problem between
> AGP and mem.
>
> In any case, I was very disappointed..
>
>
> JC

& your system setup?

Many people (myself included) run nForce2 boards at 400FSB or over with 2
sticks of RAM.

on nForce2 to get maximum performance you need to run your memory & cpu FSB
at the same speed.
If you run e.g. CPU @ 333 & memory at 400 you will get reduced
performance.

>
>PC3200 is supposed to scoot at 400MHz, but my Nvidia Force 2
>motherboard balks. Could this be because the the memory is
>CL3 .. or that the Nvidia chip set has problems with driving
>2 double sided dimms ?? Or is there a bus problem between
>AGP and mem.
>
>In any case, I was very disappointed..
>
>
>JC

On my A7N8X PC3200 runs perfect at 197 FSB. That's with two different
brands of RAM. Corsair XMS and Elixar. Since I'm running a 2500+ @
3200+(almost) that's good enough for me.
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Thanks for your comments, Buff and AJ

My setup is a FIC AU13 with a 2500 Barton and 2 sticks of PC3200 CL3
memory. I also couldn't quite get an Nvidia FX5200 card runing
on the AGP, so I fell back on an old 4X ASUS Gforce..

As I was saying, 200 FSB bombed (occasional but fatal errors).
I settle for 18O FSB and CPU clock, which seems to be holding
up.

A question I have, is whether I should be setting the AGP to something
else than 8X enable to make the FX work reliably ?
The bios lets me switch from "auto" to choosing a specific AGP clock,
from 50 to 100 Mhz. What do you think ?



liaM
aka Cawdam







BUFF a écrit :
>
> "cawdam" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> >
> > PC3200 is supposed to scoot at 400MHz, but my Nvidia Force 2
> > motherboard balks. Could this be because the the memory is
> > CL3 .. or that the Nvidia chip set has problems with driving
> > 2 double sided dimms ?? Or is there a bus problem between
> > AGP and mem.
> >
> > In any case, I was very disappointed..
> >
> >
> > JC
>
> & your system setup?
>
> Many people (myself included) run nForce2 boards at 400FSB or over with 2
> sticks of RAM.
>
> on nForce2 to get maximum performance you need to run your memory & cpuFSB
> at the same speed.
> If you run e.g. CPU @ 333 & memory at 400 you will get reduced
> performance.

On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 14:39:29 +0200, cawdam <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>PC3200 is supposed to scoot at 400MHz, but my Nvidia Force 2
>motherboard balks. Could this be because the the memory is
>CL3 .. or that the Nvidia chip set has problems with driving
>2 double sided dimms ?? Or is there a bus problem between
>AGP and mem.
>
>In any case, I was very disappointed..

Well, PC3200 is supposed to be able to run at _DDR400_ , which means a
frequency of 200MHz. Which is what I and lot's of others run with
nForce2, without problem. And, well yes, CL3 would be a bit slow I
think.


ancra

>Thanks for your comments, Buff and AJ
>
>My setup is a FIC AU13 with a 2500 Barton and 2 sticks of PC3200 CL3
>memory. I also couldn't quite get an Nvidia FX5200 card runing
>on the AGP, so I fell back on an old 4X ASUS Gforce..
>
>As I was saying, 200 FSB bombed (occasional but fatal errors).
>I settle for 18O FSB and CPU clock, which seems to be holding
>up.
>
>A question I have, is whether I should be setting the AGP to something
>else than 8X enable to make the FX work reliably ?
>The bios lets me switch from "auto" to choosing a specific AGP clock,
>from 50 to 100 Mhz. What do you think ?
>
>
You want it locked at 66Mhz.
I have my RAM locked in sync with my CPU FSB. Until I did that it
crashed every few minutes. Auto on my board should have locked it but
is famous for failing. I only know how to lock them in sync on the
A7N8X.

Advanced Chipset Features-
System Performance-
User Define- Memory
Frequency-
100%.

That Locks the CPU FSB in sync with the RAM. Even if you run stable
without them locked, performance can be awful with them out of sync.


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