Asus P5B (vanilla) Overview

[Timbosan]

Thanks

I got the RAM at 5-5-5-15 now. The SPD had it set at 5-5-5-18. It seems to be working fine with the new settings but I don´t real know what this means. I will buy a new CPU in a few weeks but I am not sure which one. Could someone recommend one with a good cost/performance ratio that would go well with my hardware?

Thanks

What speed are you at so far? There are some good threads in the general memory section that explain memory timings. They instruct the ram how to operate, basically how long to wait before executing a certain command. The '18' on the end is very 'loose', and your ram should be fine with 15, maybe lower. There are also subtimings, so a loose starting point would be (read down the screen):

5-5-5-15-6-42-8-11-12-15 - should be ok for 900MHz ~2.1v

standard timing for your ram at 800mhz is:
5-5-5-12-6-42-3-11-5-14

The higher you push it the looser the timings need to be. For a cpu recommendation, depends what you wanna do with it, but i like the e6300, e6400 as a match for the P5B and some PC6400. The e6400 is probably a better match for P5B & PC6400 as many e6300's can do 500 mhz+ which a lot of PC6400 cant do. 1000mhz+ capable ram isnt cheap.