Evancold
02-22-2006, 08:00 AM
Hello everyone, I am hoping that someone can assist me with the issue that I have been having. On my Expert board I am unable to run this ram stable above DDR400 regardless of timings/volts/ect. I have done an RMA through G skill and still have the same issue of course. First of all I would like to state that I have been testing this ram non-stop for over a month with no luck. I have a spread sheet with more than 70 different combinations of timings, none of them get me stable above DDR400. Last night I went home to continue my testing, I just finished passing memtest for the 46th pass with not one error. So I went into windows and was hoping for the best. First thing I did was ran 3DMark06 for a very short stability test. It ran fine, so I moved on to super pi, it also ran fine. Then I started prime, first test passed fine, second test froze my entire computer. And I thought I was getting closer :mad: but I suppose not. This is running the ram at DDR 476, so I drop the ram back down to DDR405 and prime, no issues at all. I have primed for over 40 hours with these settings and my cpu clocked to 2853. I even changed my multi to 8 and ran 1:1 with my cpu clocked at 2GHz and I still cannot prime with this ram at DDR500. This CPU can do 2880 on 1.36v so I know the cpu is not giving me issues at 2GHz. I have also had other ram above DDR560 on this board, so I really do not think it is the board as well. So basically I can get memtest stable no problem, but it is not prime stable or stable in windows period anything above DDR405. Any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated. Listed below are my most recent timings.
Genie BIOS Settings:
FSB Bus Frequency - 250
LDT/FSB Frequency Ratio - x4
CPU/FSB Frequency Ratio - x8
PCI eXpress Frequency - 100Mhz
CPU VID StartUp Value - 1.375v
CPU VID Control - 1.375v
CPU VID Special Control - Above VID * 102.4%
LDT Voltage Control - 1.30v
Chip Set Voltage Control - 1.65v
DRAM Voltage Control - 2.74v
DRAM Configuration Settings:
DRAM Frequency Set - 200=RAM/FSB:01/01
Command Per Clock (CPC) - Enable
CAS Latency Control (Tcl) - 3.0
RAS# to CAS# delay (Trcd) - 04 Bus Clocks
Min RAS# active time (Tras) - 08 Bus Clocks
Row precharge time (Trp) - 04 Bus Clocks
Row Cycle time (Trc) - 16 Bus Clocks
Row refresh cyc time (Trfc) - 20 Bus Clocks
Row to Row delay (Trrd) - 02 Bus Clocks
Write recovery time (Twr) - 03 Bus Clocks
Write to Read delay (Twtr) - 02 Bus Clocks
Read to Write delay (Trwt) - 04 Bus Clocks
Refresh Period (Tref) - 3072 Cycles
Write CAS Latency (Twcl) - 1
DRAM Bank Interleave - Enabled
DQS Skew Control - auto
DQS Skew Value - 255
DRAM Drive Strength - Level 8
DRAM Data Drive Strength - Level 4
Max Async Latency - 9.0 Nano Seconds
Read Preamble Time - 7.0 Nano Seconds
IdleCycle Limit - 256 Cycles
Dynamic Counter - disable
R/W Queue Bypass - 16 x
Bypass Max - 07 x
32 Byte Granularity - Disable(4 Bursts)
Genie BIOS Settings:
FSB Bus Frequency - 250
LDT/FSB Frequency Ratio - x4
CPU/FSB Frequency Ratio - x8
PCI eXpress Frequency - 100Mhz
CPU VID StartUp Value - 1.375v
CPU VID Control - 1.375v
CPU VID Special Control - Above VID * 102.4%
LDT Voltage Control - 1.30v
Chip Set Voltage Control - 1.65v
DRAM Voltage Control - 2.74v
DRAM Configuration Settings:
DRAM Frequency Set - 200=RAM/FSB:01/01
Command Per Clock (CPC) - Enable
CAS Latency Control (Tcl) - 3.0
RAS# to CAS# delay (Trcd) - 04 Bus Clocks
Min RAS# active time (Tras) - 08 Bus Clocks
Row precharge time (Trp) - 04 Bus Clocks
Row Cycle time (Trc) - 16 Bus Clocks
Row refresh cyc time (Trfc) - 20 Bus Clocks
Row to Row delay (Trrd) - 02 Bus Clocks
Write recovery time (Twr) - 03 Bus Clocks
Write to Read delay (Twtr) - 02 Bus Clocks
Read to Write delay (Trwt) - 04 Bus Clocks
Refresh Period (Tref) - 3072 Cycles
Write CAS Latency (Twcl) - 1
DRAM Bank Interleave - Enabled
DQS Skew Control - auto
DQS Skew Value - 255
DRAM Drive Strength - Level 8
DRAM Data Drive Strength - Level 4
Max Async Latency - 9.0 Nano Seconds
Read Preamble Time - 7.0 Nano Seconds
IdleCycle Limit - 256 Cycles
Dynamic Counter - disable
R/W Queue Bypass - 16 x
Bypass Max - 07 x
32 Byte Granularity - Disable(4 Bursts)