NF4 Ultra D 4 sticks clocked down to 333?

[Another Rookie]

Does everyone's board clock down to 333 when 4 mem sticks are used? Works fine with 2. I updated all bios but the problem still occured.

[medianOCer]

You might be able to run 400 with a setting of 2T (unsure about 1T) for the command rate and with 4 sticks.

 

Also, looks like this thread needs to be in a different area.

[divinemisfire]

mine's ok .. 2T

[Another Rookie]

What is this T2 or T1 you speak of?

 

 

Sorry if this is in wrong section.

 

Thanks

[wevsspot]

Disable CPC in your Genie BIOS section. That selects 2T command rate. With CPC enabled it will try and run at 1T command rate.

[Another Rookie]

Well I just tried that and when I ran CPUz it showed no change. I hope there is a fix. Here are my results, maybe someone can see something.

 

CPU-Z Report

 

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CPU-Z version 1.31.

 

 

CPU(s)

Number of CPUs 2

 

CPU#1 APIC ID = 0

Name AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+

Code Name Manchester

Specification AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+

Family / Model / Stepping F B 1

Extended Family / Model F 2B

Brand ID 5

Package Socket 939

Core Stepping BH-E4

Technology 90 nm

Supported Instructions Sets MMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64

CPU Clock Speed 2009.2 MHz

Clock multiplier x 10.0

Front Side Bus Frequency 200.9 MHz

L1 Data Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size

L1 Instruction Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size

L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size

L2 Speed 2009.2 MHz (Full)

L2 Location On Chip

L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes

L2 Bus Width 128 bits

 

CPU#2 APIC ID = 1

Name AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+

Code Name Manchester

Specification AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+

Family / Model / Stepping F B 1

Extended Family / Model F 2B

Brand ID 5

Package Socket 939

Core Stepping BH-E4

Technology 90 nm

Supported Instructions Sets MMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64

CPU Clock Speed 2009.2 MHz

Clock multiplier x 10.0

Front Side Bus Frequency 200.9 MHz

L1 Data Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size

L1 Instruction Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size

L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size

L2 Speed 2009.2 MHz (Full)

L2 Location On Chip

L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes

L2 Bus Width 128 bits

 

 

 

Mainboard and chipset

Motherboard manufacturer DFI Corp,LTD

Motherboard model LP NF4 Series, 1.0

BIOS vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD

BIOS revision 6.00 PG

BIOS release date 06/23/2005

Chipset nVidia nForce4 rev. A3

Southbridge nVidia nForce4 MCP rev. A3

Sensor chip ITE 8712

 

Graphic Interface PCI-Express

PCI-E Link Width x16

PCI-E Max Link Width x16

 

 

 

Memory

DRAM Type DDR-SDRAM

DRAM Size 2048 MBytes

DRAM Frequency 167.4 MHz

FSB:DRAM CPU/12

CAS# Latency 2.0 clocks

RAS# to CAS# 3 clocks

RAS# Precharge 3 clocks

Cycle Time (TRAS) 7 clocks

Bank Cycle Time (TRC) 10 clocks

DRAM Idle Timer 16 clocks

# of memory modules 4

Module 0 Kingston DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 512 MBytes

Module 1 Kingston DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 512 MBytes

Module 2 Kingston DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 512 MBytes

Module 3 Kingston DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 512 MBytes

 

 

 

Software

Windows version Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)

DirectX version 9.0c

[bldegle2]

is your ram on auto or divider, i see where is sez FSBRAM CPU/12, yet above your CPU settings show a multi of 10 (x200, i assume).

 

normally that number after the CPU is 10 when running 1/1 and a 10x multi, same for 9 @1/1, etc.

 

i thought the NF4 boards ran the four slots loaded @200 and beyond with some small clocking.....

 

hmm.

 

baldy

[Another Rookie]

I'm a bit of a newbie and don't quite know what your talking about. So you think my cpu is bad?

[racewayzx]

hes not saying your cpus bad. read the definative dfi & amd overclocking guide sticky in the amd overclocking section. there is a lot if good info about running ram on dividers.

[Another Rookie]

Thanks for the info. The thing is thou I'm not reallly trying to get in to oc I just want it to run at what it should. I will look for that thou. Might be the info I need.

 

Thanks

[RGone]

I just want it to run at what it should.

 

Well if that is WHAT you want then it is doing 'exactly' as it should do because the AMD specification for the inbuilt memory controller inside the cpu is spec'd to drop the memory speed to DDR33 when 4 sticks are installed and that is exactly what you said it was doing.

 

Now if however you had said > is it possible that I can run my 4 sticks at 400DDR the rated speed of the memory that would have been the correct question? You may be able to do so by going into Bios and loading optimized settings> save and exit. Reboot and go Genie Bios and Dram configuration and at CommandPerClock CPC= DISABLE and save and exit and likely if the memory is capable enough it should be able to run DDR400 and show same at boot screen.

 

That is the quickest way to get there that I am aware of. There are other things may need adjusting for further move to correctness.

 

RGone...

[Another Rookie]

Ah ok I did try the disable cpc but it made no difference. I did not do the optimized bios so that may be what I did wrong. I was afraid to switch to optimized because I did not what it changed exactly. I will try that now.

 

Thanks