Upgrading Review Test System

[bloodbob]

Damn so basicly they gave you two free mobos lucky ( even though it won't cost you they will return as broken then everyone else pays small percent more )

 

[jvd]

Sorry for bringing up this old topic.

Okay, I've had the new rig (3200+, Abit mobo) running for a few weeks now. There was some inexplicable problem initially -- the mobo was short-circuited twice (i.e. two mobos went dead) after a while. The shop that I usually buys stuff from (and which I bought this new rig from) finally traced the problem down to an incorrectly placed metal spacer on the case that touched the mobo at a place it shouldn't be touching! All is fine now (with a 3rd Abit mobo... you have no idea how good this shop is to me!).

Anyway, the real reason for bringing back up this thread is a question pertaining to the Kingston RAM I bought. It's a couple of 256MB HyperX PC3200 RAM. I never really paid much attention to the RAM (the shop guy, which I trust, told me this is good RAM) but just now I looked at the BIOS and it appears that the RAM timings are 8-3-3-2.5

My question is if anyone knows if this Kingston RAM can run at anything better than those timings?

only way to find out is to change the settings . That is most likely your mb setting it to that .

 

[AAlcHemY]

only way to find out is to change the settings . That is most likely your mb setting it to that .

Indeed, try to run on 2-2-2-11 ( CAS, RAS/CAS, RAS and Tras ). Nothing beats that on nForce, also CPU interface on enabled. ( enables 1T command rate ). My Corsair Pc3200 can run those up to 210fsb. When you've changed the timings of the ram, run Superpi to check if its stable.

 

[Sxotty]

What about going to kingstons website and checking what it will do, then try it? I mean most real manufactures have the specs listed.

 

[BRiT]

As AAlcHemY said, try 2-2-2-11 timings for memory and run memtest. Test #5 seems to be the one that will fail first if the timings are too fast. If you can run through a couple of loops of the standard tests without failure then you're good to go. If you get a couple of failures, try bumping the vDimm up to 2.8 volts to see if that stabilizes things.

 

[MeltedRabbit]

Kingston lists their HyperX PC3200 RAM as running with the timings of 2-2-2-6-1. Here is a link to the specs on the the memory:
http://www.ec.kingston.com/ecom/configurator/PartsInfo.asp?ktcpartno=KHX3200/512

Also while you are on the topic of upgrading your computer, may I suggest that you buy a frame grabber card to defeat attempts for driver to increase image quality with frame captures.
These types of card are discussed in the later pages of this thread: http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7903
One card like this is the Unigraf UFG-01 Frame Grabber described here: http://www.unigraf.fi/PAGES/Framegrabber.htm
Another card is the iView iVD-RGB here: http://www.iviewdata.com/html/ivd-rgb.html
iView also appears to accept international orders.