Hey Slippy,

My personal welcome to PCHF.

Have you tested the individual sticks to see if you actually have errors on any of them? I would run a full memtest scan and make sure they were all 100% before banging your head against the wall any more than you have already.

Also, have you tested all of the sticks seperately to see if you are getting the same kind of slow down, and have you switched out locations say name them A, B, C, and D, have them in slots 1,2,3, and 4, and then swap to B,C,D,A, etc?

Looking forward to your reply,

TTFN

LGW

hi there thanks for your reply.
have done memory tests previously with no errors.. didn't do it with individual sticks though.
however have tried just using 2gb of ram swapping ram that was in 2 & 4 into slots 1 & 3 and running the windows experience index again and get same results for both pairs of ram so i believe all 4 are good.

have done a bit of tinkering in bios today and now have all 4 rams working at an experience index of 4.8 the same as with 2.
5.9 is highest mark you can get with this index..so not bad but not as good as i hoped with high quality ballistix ram.

i managed this by enabling memory hole putting hardware rewrapping into discrete (think thats what i did or something similar)
and setting memory speed at 200mhz..(which is 2 x 200mhz i believe so 400mhz)
in manual it says it drops memory speed to 333mhz with 4 double sided rams, so not sure but think i may have overrided this.
also am overclocked to 5% with ai nos.

tryed muckin about with ddr voltages briefly and had overclock failures so stopped that, also a bit scared of frying things so was tentative.

all seems a little faster a present haven't tried any games yet however.
sooo will try a few games later and let you know.

do you know anyone with a similar system to me and know of their bios settings.
going off subject a little
if i set ai nos past 7% it wont boot,so would like to know of settings that may work. just want to get the potential out of my machine. and games to run as floorlessly at high settings as poss. with my rig i should really not be experiencing any slow downs and choppyness at all.

thanks for your time again.

Are you certain that all the Memory Modules are identical? If you pair slower ram with faster ram they will all run at the slower Ram's speed.

yes mate bought from same company. and identical products.
all 4 x 1gb with same specs.
have 1st pair in slots 2 and 4
and 2nd pair in 1 and 3 at present

bought my 1 st pair 6 months ago 2nd pair 2 months ago.

thx for your reply

Hey Slippy,

Our resident overclocking guru hasn't been on in a while, which may mean that he's due. I am going to email him and see if he has the time to check out your thread. He has always had the best handle on how to set a system.

In the mean time, we'll be waiting to hear how your games are playing.

TTFN

LGW