system ram issues

[s15v8]

dont these seem low for a A64?

edit: i only have 3 dimm slots yet it's displaying 5 of them, why is that?

[thrawn86]

its showing memory benches for 4 other reference systems, besides the bench for your own system at the top.

[s15v8]

sorry, I mean the actual banks of memory further down, bank 0, bank 1, bank 2, etc..

[drs1771]

What version of Sandra is that?

[s15v8]

win32 version 2004.10.9.133 i think thats the version

[drs1771]

That's bizzare. Not only am I stumped on the 5 banks, but why is it showing a 16-bit interface with A64?

Your FSB is correct, and your memory timings look o.k., except that your ras to cas is 3, and it has been demonstrated that 2 gives a substantial boost in performance. However, 3 shouldn't cut you down to 1700meg/sec of bandwidth. That's like Via Kt266 w/pc2100 scores. Let's hope you just have uncovered a glitch in the software.

Maybe try finding Sandra 2003 and see if that measures more accurately.

[s15v8]

i tried searching for a 2003 version, but they keep sending me back to the main site and it would try to download the 2004 version

[PriMaTe]

yea there's some sort of problem there definitely. Do you have the chipset drivers installed? is your ram running async? check the bios

[s15v8]

sorry slow reply to a post, but a couple of days ago, i opened the case and found the the problem, two of my ram sticks are pc2100 (i know its crap ram) and another is a 2700 stick and the frequency was locked at 133 mhz, I ordered two sticks of 512 corsair 3200 to remedy the problem.

[s15v8]

update: got my 3200's in, big improvement!
this is with stock timings

[eshbach]

(271mhz)