Memory suggestions Gigabyte EP45-DS3L (DDR2 1333 / 1200 ???)

You have to manually enter in your voltage, 2.0, and timings,
which the website for your ram says are CL 6-7-7-20.
It says you can go up to 2.05 v before violating the warrantee.
EasyTune is a software program that Gigabyte includes with some of it's
boards.

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OCZ DDR2 PC2-8500 Fatal1ty 4GB Dual Channel
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1066MHz DDR2
CL 6-7-7-20
(CAS-TRCD-TRP-TRAS)
Available in 4GB (2x2048MB) dual channel kits
Unbuffered
Fatal1ty Branded XTC Heatspreader*
Lifetime Warranty
2.0 Volts
240 Pin DIMM

Special Features

2.05V EVP***

Part Numbers

4GB Dual Channel Kit PN - OCZ2F10664GK




OCZ2F10664GK
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OCZ DDR2 PC2-8500 / 1066MHz / Fatal1ty Edition / 4GB Dual
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* XTC (Xtreme Thermal Convection) heatspreaders optimize
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inside conventional heatspreader designs. In this manner, build-up of heat
is avoided and thermal dissipation of the memory components is offloaded
more efficiently through the honeycomb design. At the same time, mechanical
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"Giga Guy" wrote in message ...
RonM wrote:

The board defaults to the 800Mhz setting -
Go into the bios and change the settings/voltage per the RAM sticker
yourself.

You saying that just by increasing the ram voltage, that the mobo will
be able to "sense" something in the ram and increase the clock speed
automatically?

I think it said 2.0 or 2.1 or 2.2 v on the package. I did up the
voltage to 1.9 but it still said 800 mhz in the bios.

Don't use the EasyTune program as it may overvolt.

There's no OS on this thing yet. Is there a ram stress program that
boots from a floppy? Was it something like memtest86? Is that what I'm
thinking about?

Let me know how it goes - I am wondering if I
should have got the faster stuff myself.

The earliest I'll be able to post back my next results will be about 6
pm EST tommorrow.

david wrote:

Try memtest86+ instead.

http://www.memtest.org/

I see now that there are two different "streams" of memtest:

http://www.memtest86.com/download.html

http://www.memtest.org/

I've been running version 3.5 from the first website.

Which one is preferred?

Ok, after all that **** with memtest 3.5, I'll be using memtest86+ 2.11
from now on.

What I've been testing so far are these:

Kingston KHX8500D2K2/4G

Kingston specs are 5-5-5-15 @ 2.2V, but they run really hot. I didn't
take them above 2.0v. I found it was stable at 6-6-6-16 at 1066mhz
(memory clock at 533 mhz) at 1.9v. I tried running it at 1110 mhz at
2.0v but it failed memtest 2.11 consistently at about the 35% part of
pass 1. Running at 1066, memtest reports 4226 mb/sec (single channel)
and 5425 mb/sec (dual channel).

Corsair Twin2X4096-8500C

Specs printed on the dimms say 7-7-7-20, 2.0v, 1066 mhz. I found it
stable at 6-6-6-16 at 2.0v running 1110 mhz. Memtest
reports 4385 mb/s (single channel). Haven't tried them in dual channel.

I'd have to give the edge to Corsair in this comparison.

This again is on a Gigabyte EP45-DS3L with Intel Q8200 (Core2 Quad
SLB5M) 2.33 GHz (clock multiplier 333 MHz x 7).

My next test won't be for another day or two. I will try the OCZ
fatality again, and try a full 8gb of ram.

Does anyone mess around with the pages and pages of additional bios ram
settings? Is there any pattern or proceedure for setting those? Should
I even bother?

Does anyone maintains a list of memtest speed charts or tables? There
are lots of performance numbers out there that the various publications
resort to, but I don't think I've seen any of them use the raw mb/sec
numbers from memtest86.

Why on earth did the industry migrate from DDR to DDR2 and now to DDR3
if there are really no performance benefits from all these new ram
versions - especially the transition from DDR2 to DDR3 ?