What's your memory assessment speed?

Faladu said:

My RAM is better than my mobo can handle so it's apparently running at 400, instead of 533, I verified this via CPU-Z and checked G-Skill's web site on qualified motherboards, mine not listed (see my system specs), that and past attempts tweaking with my settings in BIOS failed miserably.

If the "Memory" tab in CPU-z shows 533MHz, then that's what you RAM is running at... The "SPD" tab shows the compatible speeds according to your RAM, while the "Memory" tab shows the current settings. Besides that, according to Gigabyte's website, your P35-DS3L supports DDR2-1066 (link).

Faladu said:

I get BSOD's immediately booting into windows if I change anything in BIOS overclock settings, even though this is just trying to get my memory to it's rated potential, mediocre motherboarditis!

That could be for a number of reasons; have you tried increasing the voltage supplied to your CPU or RAM? Overclocking makes a component work harder by increasing it's clock cycle rate, therefore drawing more power than normal.

Although, seeing a review I just found now (I was waiting for the page to load while I was typing this), it appears your motherboard doesn't like overclocking that much anyway... Have a look here. Specifically regarding the point that they increased the CPU voltage to 1.5v and well.. Melted the plug. Lol... That must suck.

Zalith, I am pretty paranoid about harming what I have already got, and yeah next go around I will get a much better chipset'd motherboard, at the time and budget, the one I got was well received, I spend hours and hours reading reviews on newegg and/or other reviews. I generally prefer to stay at stocked speeds, pushing the limit only requires one bad move to screw it up.

I had bad luck there too though kind of, I have 1.0 revision, 2.0 came out a week after I got mine, it probably didn't matter much but... I looked at that article, ouch, very non-overclocking mobo, damn them for the overclocking tease though in BIOS, I mean it's pretty slick settings wise, but useless in practice, what was Gigabyte thinking?

I was just looking at hardware to see what all would be a good upgrade, I need a job!

Nextgen h/w is on the way later this year or early next, as usual... and I am forced to wait so no problem.

Are you sure it's not the otherway around on the CPU-Z tabs? Memory one is showing max bandwidth at 400 (PC2-6400, that is the box that is confusing me!), reason I ask, looking at other scores, mine looks bad for what I have, someone else had their DDR2-800 scoring over 8000 to my 6700ish when I am not running browser or other apps.

And yeah I had bought 1066 ram because Gigabyte said mobo supports it, though G-Skill's site doesn't list this one as qualified which confused me further.

Here's mine:




I could probably get higher but I'm already scoring 7.5 in memory and I don't want to differentiate from SPD timings.

Here is mine.Any issues?

ok here is mine from my new system.

spec is i5 750 stock, ram at 1333 speeds with 8-8-8-24

C:\Windows\system32>winsat mem
Windows System Assessment Tool
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: System memory performance assessment ''
> Run Time 00:00:05.13
> Memory Performance 16497.95 MB/s
> Total Run Time 00:00:06.89

I got 4 gig of ram in this system. I did also post my old score in this thread somewhere so going to look for it now and compare it.

here we go.

What's your memory assessment speed?

so tripled my ram speed, very nice.