Buffalo 3700 reads as 2700???

[speedyaxon]

i know mine are 314WE BH-5. I don't have the rest of the numbers on me though...the stickers on the ram say pc3700 and that's all cool, but it registers as Melko DDR-SDRAM PC2700. This is really crazy...

[vairox]

crazy indeed, i think i'll send it back to newegg if it registers the same on my new board when it gets here... something is screwey.

[russ_watters]

Memory reads as whatever speed the motherboard is running it at. If you clock it as pc2700, Sandra will say its pc2700. If you clock it at pc2100, Sandra will say its pc2100. Just like your processor.

[vairox]

thing is....it reads it as pc2700 no matter what the bus speed is, i had it at 150 before now its at 166, same thing. by the way i notice in your sig your using a Athlon 500 & SD11 as a footstool, i used run a 500@700 with a goldfinger on that board, everyone said it was the junkiest most unstable board out there but i found it to be the most stable...as a rock, weird. still have the board and processor in the closet, cpu has a really long resistor hanging off the back from a botched soldering mod job i did

[Isezumi]

yeah...I dont even think that 3700 has a JDEC spec out...dont think 3500 had one until recently...so 3700 is going to be an overclocked version of something.

Its highly possible that what you have is a stick of 2700 that OCs really well, so they stamped it as 3700...

[Colossus]

Originally posted by Isezumi
yeah...I dont even think that 3700 has a JDEC spec out...dont think 3500 had one until recently...so 3700 is going to be an overclocked version of something.

Its highly possible that what you have is a stick of 2700 that OCs really well, so they stamped it as 3700...

I havent heard of a JDEC for PC3500... I still think PC3200 is the max so far

[Isezumi]

Originally posted by Colossus
I havent heard of a JDEC for PC3500... I still think PC3200 is the max so far

hmm...

either way I wouldnt trust Sandra or whatever to properly ID my hardware.

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[vairox]

got a reply from buffalo tech...

Hello so and so,

Sandra is reporting it correctly. That part number was released before the final Intel spec for PC3200 in March.

It is programmed to be backwards compatible with the available computers at that time. It is up to the enduser to set it for whatever speeds their computer can overclock to in the BIOS.


so it appears all if ok...

[russ_watters]

Originally posted by vairox
...everyone said it was the junkiest most unstable board out there

Yeah, I heard that too - either we got lucky or everyone else sucks. I'm betting on the latter As of a couple of days ago, that PC got resurrected as a temporary cad workstation at my office.

got a reply from buffalo tech...

Makes sense. I'll take a closer look at what Sandra says about mine anyway. I didn't even realize there was any way for the motherboard to detect what kind of memory you have in it. Usually you have to set it. I know for sure that my post screen reads my cpu as the nearest one to the clock speed I'm running at. Right now it says I have a 2800+. I was pretty sure my memory reads the same way.