Quote Originally Posted by ThugsRook View Post
it appears you are confusing Everest benchmark with actual performance. Everest benchmark does not represent real performance, especially on a P45 that could care less about Everest.

CL444-12 PL8 means nothing to a gaming rig, matter of fact itll prolly be slower.
Who said CL4?
I am at CL5, check pic again.

I will say this again, P45 is very limited on memory performance (any brand board). There are some sweet spots and you have to take advantage of it. That is how you do on this chipset. If you want to have the performance expected from a DDR2-1300+ clock, you need to go back to P35 (DFI LP UT) or try some X48. Nvidia chipsets will own any intel chipset when it comes to DDR2 memory performance (mem controler is their especiality), but we know how unstable those chipsets are, so I won't recomend it. That is why I am on a intel too.

On P45 you should focus on the FSB and CPU clocks, and take advantage of the mem sweet spots.

It means absolutely nothing to have a high clocked mem on a P45 with a very poor performance. Not smart at all.

We can play on some 3DMARK too, so you can understand what I am saying too.