What's your memory assessment speed?

[Dave76]

Kingston 2x2GB@1333Mhz 9/9/9/24 (isn't that suppose to be slow??)
No OC yet, will use the mobo OC button soon tho

Doesn't look slow to me

You got a nice setup, nothing wrong with your RAM or timings

 

[Beemerke]

Kingston 2x2GB@1333Mhz 9/9/9/24 (isn't that suppose to be slow??)
No OC yet, will use the mobo OC button soon tho

Doesn't look slow to me

You got a nice setup, nothing wrong with your RAM or timings

What I mean is the timings are suppose to be slow but doesn't show in the overall speed, makes me think timings are a load of bull

 

[A Guy]

2x2GB Kingston HyperX 1600MHz 9/9/9/24 running at 1333MHz for now. A Guy

View attachment 71637

 

[RayTheRat]

Here are a coupla screen dumps. Memory speed sez it's 30313 and change. Resmon tells me that only 2 gig out of the 16 on board are being used.

This is on a system with dual quad-core Opterons, each of which have 8 gig of "registered" (why didn't they just call it "buffered") memory.

When I run the WEI it comes up with a score of 7.2, showing the SATA disks as the slowest section.

Try as I might, I cannot get the system to use more than 3 gig of RAM, even when it bogs down at tells me that things have stopped working...like Firefox. That's a rather frequent event. I find that I have to reboot this sucker at least once a day and many times, many times more.

Here's the build diary on it:
Dreadnought

Long story short for those who haven't seen my posts in the WEI thread. I've been working with computers since 1966. Yeah. I'm old. But I've worked on everything from vacuum-tube analog systems to mainframes to...well, whatever. Then I spent the last 20 years of my career as a developer/analyst working mainly on one-off interface programs to port data from one system to another....and a buncha other stuff.

I had to retire early due to health problems and now I've started another career as a photographer and web designer/maintainer/whatever.

The reason I built this box is because I have literally millions of photos and I spend at least half of my waking hours editing them and the old box with XP just wasn't cuttin it. So I built this one. It's better, but I'm still not happy with it. And I'm really baffled by the seeming 3 or 4 gig limit on RAM.

I tried setting the # of processors and memory in msconfig, but that ended up having to go back to a restore point. It really didn't like what I told it, I guess. Further research seems to indicate that the advanced boot options for # of procs and memory amount are only to limit the system for troubleshooting purposes. I don't think I'll try that one again any time soon.

If anyone has any insight on how to free up or un-throttle memory usage, I'd sure appreciate it.

Btw, I otta mention that as of today I've tried some things that seem to help with performance from a subjective standpoint: I've set the task scheduler to prioritize background tasks rather than programs. Seems counter-intuitive but it really helped in running some cataloging programs that would generally wander off into no mans' land and hang. They ran completely and quickly after making that change.

I've also disabled the swap file. I have a 60 gig SSD for the OS and very little else. Freeing up 16 gig on it really helps with free space there.

Finally, I've started using Free Commander in place of Explorer. I'd been using Xplorer2, but it doesn't support a tree structure in both "panels."

Having said all that, I need to edit some photos from a shoot I did earlier in the day.

If ya got some ideas for tweaks, I'd sure like to give 'em a try. One thing I can't do is completely restructure the disk system with a RAID 3 or 4 setup. I won't have the time to do that until October or November based on my seasonal schedule for photo shoots.

Thanks,

 

[RayTheRat]

Hmmm...where did the screen dumps go? Let's try that again.

 

[kurahk7]

Here's mine, pretty decent I think DDR3 1333mhz 7-7-7-20

 

[kurahk7]

Kingston 2x2GB@1333Mhz 9/9/9/24 (isn't that suppose to be slow??)
No OC yet, will use the mobo OC button soon tho

Doesn't look slow to me

You got a nice setup, nothing wrong with your RAM or timings

What I mean is the timings are suppose to be slow but doesn't show in the overall speed, makes me think timings are a load of bull

1333mhz should be 7-7-7-20 right?

 

[Dave76]

Doesn't look slow to me

You got a nice setup, nothing wrong with your RAM or timings

What I mean is the timings are suppose to be slow but doesn't show in the overall speed, makes me think timings are a load of bull

1333mhz should be 7-7-7-20 right?

Depends on the manufacturers specs and design. Can be different timings and voltage ranges from the same brand, depending on the model.

All are different.

Edit:
Here's some info on the timing ranges.
DDR3 SDRAM

 

[paulpicks21]

Ok , mines not a massive score , but considering the memory I don't think its bad.

I have 1 x 2gb stick of 800mhz and 1 x 1gb of 677mhz memory so totally mixed up.

Its overclocked in the bios to 900mhz and running in flex mode.

 

[TurboGFF]

Windows System Assessment Tool
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: System memory performance assessment ''
> Run Time 00:00:05.18
> Memory Performance 4676.06 MB/s
> Total Run Time 00:00:07.85

This is with DDR2 4gb 1066. CL5-5-5-15. Can someone tell me if this is normal, or low? I'm seeing alot of high numbers... and something doesn't feel right.

Oh yeah, the Ram is Mushkin Blackline Frostbyte PC2-8500

 

[ZaLiTH]

Windows System Assessment Tool
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: System memory performance assessment ''
> Run Time 00:00:05.18
> Memory Performance 4676.06 MB/s
> Total Run Time 00:00:07.85

This is with DDR2 4gb 1066. CL5-5-5-15. Can someone tell me if this is normal, or low? I'm seeing alot of high numbers... and something doesn't feel right.

Oh yeah, the Ram is Mushkin Blackline Frostbyte PC2-8500

That does seem a little bit low to me.... I would've thought PC8500 RAM would get more than that? I've only got PC6400 (DDR2-800) and I just got this now:

 

[Beemerke]

What I mean is the timings are suppose to be slow but doesn't show in the overall speed, makes me think timings are a load of bull

1333mhz should be 7-7-7-20 right?

Depends on the manufacturers specs and design. Can be different timings and voltage ranges from the same brand, depending on the model.

All are different.

Edit:
Here's some info on the timing ranges.
DDR3 SDRAM

This is probably a dumb question but I rather ask here then read a few 100 pages to find a decent answer elsewhere online
Peak transfer rate DDR3-1333: 10667 MB/s. Then where do the 16000+ scores come from?

 

[TurboGFF]

Windows System Assessment Tool
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: System memory performance assessment ''
> Run Time 00:00:05.18
> Memory Performance 4676.06 MB/s
> Total Run Time 00:00:07.85

This is with DDR2 4gb 1066. CL5-5-5-15. Can someone tell me if this is normal, or low? I'm seeing alot of high numbers... and something doesn't feel right.

Oh yeah, the Ram is Mushkin Blackline Frostbyte PC2-8500

That does seem a little bit low to me.... I would've thought PC8500 RAM would get more than that? I've only got PC6400 (DDR2-800) and I just got this now:

So what could/should I do to fix it? Its brand new ram too..

 

[ZaLiTH]

So what could/should I do to fix it? Its brand new ram too..

I'm not really sure hey... Depending on the board and CPU you have (I have no experience with your hardware) you might be able to OC the RAM? Here's an interesting article at OverClock3D, maybe that'll help a bit? I'm not sure if it's the exact same RAM as yours though...

 

[Dave76]

Windows System Assessment Tool
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: System memory performance assessment ''
> Run Time 00:00:05.18
> Memory Performance 4676.06 MB/s
> Total Run Time 00:00:07.85

This is with DDR2 4gb 1066. CL5-5-5-15. Can someone tell me if this is normal, or low? I'm seeing alot of high numbers... and something doesn't feel right.

Oh yeah, the Ram is Mushkin Blackline Frostbyte PC2-8500

That does seem a little bit low to me.... I would've thought PC8500 RAM would get more than that? I've only got PC6400 (DDR2-800) and I just got this now:

So what could/should I do to fix it? Its brand new ram too..

Did you leave the RAM at default settings?

Go to your BIOS, check the timings and voltage.

Does your MOBO and RAM have Extreme Memory Profile (X.M.P.)?

This will automatically detect your optimized RAM settings (info from the RAM).

 

[Everlong]

Hmm, I've just tried this on my DDR3 now. I have 1333MHz DDR3 RAM, and I only get around 6900MB/s in dual channel. I'm pretty sure I should be getting slightly higher than that

So I came back to this. As I bought the 3x2GB stick off a friend, I popped the 3rd stick in, fired up comp, and re-did the speed test. The speeds were exactly the same, and it was reported to still be in dual channel.. :huh:

 

[Beemerke]

Hmm, I've just tried this on my DDR3 now. I have 1333MHz DDR3 RAM, and I only get around 6900MB/s in dual channel. I'm pretty sure I should be getting slightly higher than that

So I came back to this. As I bought the 3x2GB stick off a friend, I popped the 3rd stick in, fired up comp, and re-did the speed test. The speeds were exactly the same, and it was reported to still be in dual channel.. :huh:

Of course, your cpu is either dual channel or triple channel compatible aka an I5-750 can handle 4-8-12-16GB (4*), the I7-920 6-12-18GB (6*), 2x3Gb on a i5-750 for one is useless.

 

[Dave76]

Hmm, I've just tried this on my DDR3 now. I have 1333MHz DDR3 RAM, and I only get around 6900MB/s in dual channel. I'm pretty sure I should be getting slightly higher than that

So I came back to this. As I bought the 3x2GB stick off a friend, I popped the 3rd stick in, fired up comp, and re-did the speed test. The speeds were exactly the same, and it was reported to still be in dual channel.. :huh:

Your processor is dual channel, as well as your board.

Looks like your speed is a bit slow.

I have a dual channel processor and board, 4X2GB XMS3 DDR3 1600 and get 19,424 MB/s.

Did you check the RAM settings in BIOS?
Voltage and timings.

Did you leave them at default settings or change them to the manufacturer specs?

Do you have a Extreme Memory Profile (X.M.P.) setting?

This will automatically set the RAM to manufacturer specs. If the voltage is higher than default it might increase the voltage on your processor, so check that before and after enabling XMP.

Hope this helps.

EDIT:
Just found this on a review of your MOBO: "The CPU and memory busses are “fully” independent of each other allowing you to pretty much dial up whatever speed you wish for each."

 

[fastslvblkcar]

did a little cpu upgrade just from the 140w to the 125w cpu with a little more o/c. this is ddr2 1066 but it is 8gb total ram at all factory settings it gets 10,000 but it does seem that quantity plays a factor in the speed.

 

[Dave76]

Nice score, you got that RAM tuned

The more GB you have the better the score is, don't remember the details but someone explained it earlier in this thread.

It helps.