IS THIS CORRECT??? ASUS A7N8X Deluxe + benchmark with AIDA32

[Ben Pope]

No ... No time for it. Busy in my family with two twins of almost 3 years
old ;-)
Every year again i have the plans but never come to it :-(

I saw your Memory Timings and you have exactly the same like me: 7-3-3-2.5

But maybe i have another issue ... I somewhere read about the possibility
to increase the Memory not with the Agressive method but with MANUAL and
then 130%, however i can't find it back where i read that ......

Sounds like:

Advanced Chipset Features -> System Performance: Manual
Memory Frequency: 133%

That would then run your memory at 133% of FSB, but I wouldn't recommend
it... nForce2 likes FSB and RAM in synch.

Try it and bench the results, but if your FSB is 166MHz, then you'll need
RAM capable of 166*1.33 = 222MHz. If you have PC3200 and a FSB of 166MHz,
then 120% is the setting you need in order to get RAM at 200MHz.

Maybe Ben can tell us more about this ... I saw in the BIOS that this
feature MENU was for the Experts, which i am not, so i didn't want to burn
my fingers on it ( i hope i translated this well, hehe) Should we do that,
what will be the consequences then and what do we take care of regarding
the other memory settings?

It'll fail the memory test. May have to clear CMOS / hold insert when
booting. If you don;t know if your RAM is capable of a speed, best increase
to it slowly, fully testing the RAM at each stage - at the first sign of
instability, back it off.

Ben

 

[Shogun]

Sounds like:

Advanced Chipset Features -> System Performance: Manual
Memory Frequency: 133%

That would then run your memory at 133% of FSB, but I wouldn't recommend
it... nForce2 likes FSB and RAM in synch.

Try it and bench the results, but if your FSB is 166MHz, then you'll need
RAM capable of 166*1.33 = 222MHz. If you have PC3200 and a FSB of 166MHz,
then 120% is the setting you need in order to get RAM at 200MHz.


It'll fail the memory test. May have to clear CMOS / hold insert when
booting. If you don;t know if your RAM is capable of a speed, best increase
to it slowly, fully testing the RAM at each stage - at the first sign of
instability, back it off.

I do have PC3200 and a FSB of 166 MHZ at this moment, when setting the
memory speed to Agressive. If i understand it right, then i should to get
the 200 MHZ back as before the agressive mode, increase the setting in the
Manual Mode to 120%? This does no giving me damage problems or so whatever?
Can you tell me that?

TIA

 

[Ben Pope]

I do have PC3200 and a FSB of 166 MHZ at this moment, when setting the
memory speed to Agressive. If i understand it right, then i should to get
the 200 MHZ back as before the agressive mode, increase the setting in the
Manual Mode to 120%? This does no giving me damage problems or so
whatever? Can you tell me that?

That should work, but will probably decrease performance.

If you want to increase your performance, then you could see if CL2.5 works
at 166MHz, or run the FSB and RAM at 200MHz, you may have to devrease your
multiplier in order to do that, and not all CPUs will handle a FSB that
high.

Ben

 

[Erik Harris]

Maybe but what programs should it be?

I had when using AIDA32 running several programs in the background, like
NAV, ICQ, MSN, Ad-Watch, Media Jukebox, Outlook Express and Internet
Explorer. Maybe this could be an important factor?

You're joking, right?

I hope you are, but if you're not.... Benchmarks are meaningless if you're
running them alongside a whole bunch of other programs, unless what you're
benchmarking is the system's multitasking abilities. If you want an accurate
benchmark, close every one of those programs.

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