First post, by 386SX
Hi,
I'm trying this socket 775 board that should support with latest bios up to the E8600 cpu, a processor I have installed on it after bios update. The pc boot ok but at the bios post, it's recognized as E8600 at 2,6Ghz and PC2-5300 ram. Everything was set to Auto in the bios so I went to manual mode setting 333Mhz cpu bus with 10x multiplier (maximun as default it's 3,33Ghz) and going on the ram settings I found only PC2-600 and PC2-833 or something like that. The cpu is recognized correctly at the next boot with these settings, the ram is seen as PC2-6400 but memtest see it as PC2-10600 or whatever with higher freqs than 800Mhz as it should be.
If I set to Auto the Bios post recognize the ram (OCZ PC2-6400 dual x 2GB) ram as PC3200?
Why Auto settings can't detect the real cpu/ram stock values? can I trust memtest speed reading values and how could I test real speed freqs in alternative in linux?
Thank