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First post, by 386SX

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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

Reply 1 of 4, by 386SX

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Maybe I begin to understand. In the official spec page there's this line:


*1333 / 1066 / 800 / 533 MHz
(*1333 MHz when overclocking)
2 x DIMM, max. 4GB, DDR2 667/533 MHz

So I suspect it has an old chipset (?) by the way the "945GC(A2) / ICH7"
and the maximun officlal freqs maybe where up to 2,67Ghz and 667Mhz beside "overclocking".

Am I right?

Reply 2 of 4, by SW-SSG

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The original 945GC chipset supports 800MHz CPU FSB and DDR2-667. I'm not sure what the 945GC "A2" is as the Intel site doesn't seem to document it, but it apparently can support 1066MHz FSB, as seen on this Asus MB and some ASRock ones. 1066 on 10x multiplier (266 x 10) equals 2.66GHz, so the board was likely respecting your E8600's multiplier setting but was defaulting to a non-OC'ed FSB. So, yes, E8600 @ 2.66GHz and RAM @ 667MHz are the maximum stock values for your setup on this MB.

Reply 4 of 4, by agent_x007

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386SX wrote:

Thanks, still it seems to run fine at overclocked 3,33 and not really clear PC2-667 or 833 freqs.

1) You need 1333MHz FSB for CPU to be stock clocked.
1333MHz = 333MHz (effective => real). "Real" 333MHz = 667MHz minimum memory effective clock.
Boards that don't support 1333MHz "out of the box", often have "*" near it, along with adnotation "OC".
It means, you have to manually set FSB to higher value.

2) As for RAM, your current setting is in "Memory" tab of CPU-z.
It's a real frequency, so 333MHz in CPU-z = 667MHz in effective value (or what marketing guys use).
Under "SPD" tab, you can see compatibility table with all settings at which your RAM module can work.

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