Dual Channel Problem...

[artic]

Hello,

Well... this migth sound noobish but... here goes. I recently bought some new DDR Ram DDR400 1GB(512x2) PQI ram that is said to run at 2.5-3-3-7. So i shove them in loaded up the PC checked CPU-Z... it says Dual channel but the speeds came up 3-4-4-8! So I went over to my friends house he has the same setup as me. MOBO: ASUS P4P800 E-Deluxe. Checked his and it said 2.5-3-3-6... Now its either jsut me or my Dual channel Ram is running at a single ram speed... this really sucks... lol

Well... any help to solve my problem wil be most appreciated. Thank You

 

[alanuofm]

link to ram. the cas 2.5 and 3.0 tell you nothing about dual channel. download everest home edition and check your memory bandwidth. should be 6.4 gb/s

 

[jancz3rt]

Yeah

All it tells you are the timings of the memory. The smaller, the better. Either your processor does not allow better, or your motherboard does not allow for better timings.

JAN

 

[artic]

Yeah it says 6400 MB/s so i guess it is running Dual... but may I just ask why on my friends computer it says 2.5-3-3-6 and mines it says 3-4-4-8... makes no sense... same mobo processor and ram... and on games he runs smoother... is there a way i can manually set the timings to 2.5-3-3-7 like is notedt o run at??? lol sorry if i am beign a little bit noobish :\

 

[Cromewell]

The RAM is probably running on the timings listed by SPD, go into the bios and manually set them to what they should be. My Corsair RAM does the same thing.