Will using a Ram Divider cause your Superpi time to be longer?

[rodneycubed]

I see alot of other people with the processor i have getting times of 6-7 seconds lower than mine.

specs:

p4 3.0@3.7
1 gig of ram running 5:4 with my processor

Im getting 38 second with this for the superpi 1M

Whats the deal?

[zabomb4163]

PAT can not be ennabled while not running 1:1. As a result you take a speed hit.

[rodneycubed]

Two questions:

What is PAT?

Would it be better to run at 3.7ghz with 5:4 divider or at 3.0ghz in 1:1?

[SpookyMoomin]

Hhm, that is a bit slow - I'd expect a 35s time on that. Saggy RAM timings? Any hungry apps running in background?

I played with the divider on my RAM quite a bit, the results were almost the same with 1:1 ( & tight-timing) as 3:4 (baggy as a clowns pocket timings). The effect of tighter timing seemed to balance with greater bandwidth - 3:4 (fsb:ram) won out in the end with a sub 30s run from my 650. Just gotta play around and see what works best I guess, I always thought 1:1 was the way to go but it seems not to be the case -

btw does PAT exist in boards newer than 865/875's? Not seen any mention of it on my 915 as yet. Will take a closer look next time....

[Jasonhk]

PAT is preormance accelerating technology.

It is only in the 875 boards and i think they found out how to activate it in the 865 boards as well.

PAT doesnt really make much of a bifferenace only a few milliseconds. 3% faster maybe overall.

Using a RAM devider will make your superpi score slower (doh, as the ram is running less Mhz), best you play around with it, see whats best