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OCZ DDR2 533MHz - no 4-4-4-8 settings!

post #1 of 13
7/23/05 at 7:36am
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Hi,

I have two new 1GB 533 DDR2 SO-DIMMs bought. The bad thing with the OCZ RAM is now:

Before: 2x Samsung 512 MB PC4200S 4-4-4-10 (from SPD @266MHz)

But runs with 4-4-4-11 set by BIOS. I think the DELL BIOS sets 1 step above SPD to be safe.

Now: 2x new OCZ 1GB PC42000S 4-4-4-8 (labeled on the RAM sticker/dealer!!!) and from the SPD: I get now 4-4-4-11 :-( DELL BIOS set it to?... 4-4-4-12 Very bad. Argggg.

Has anybody made the same bad experiences with OCZ RAM?

Marcus
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post #2 of 13
7/23/05 at 7:42am
have you run any benchmarks with the old VS new ram to see if even makes a difference in performance ?
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post #3 of 13
7/23/05 at 7:48am
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Originally Posted by XPS
have you run any benchmarks with the old VS new ram to see if even makes a difference in performance ?
Yes, with new SiSoft SANDRA and checked allways with CPU-Z.

All have run in DUAL channel and now I get ~ 10mb/s in SANDRA RAM bench...Nut much, but...

...why OCZ label their RAM 4-4-4-8, these idio...

Regards,
Marcus
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post #4 of 13
7/23/05 at 9:39am
how do you find out the latency values of your RAM? which bench should i run in sandra? do i need the paid for version or the lite version? I've tried a few things in it but have been unable to find out what my RAM is currently running at
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post #5 of 13
7/23/05 at 9:53am
how do you find out the latency values of your RAM? which bench should i run in sandra? do i need the paid for version or the lite version? I've tried a few things in it but have been unable to find out what my RAM is currently running at
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post #6 of 13
7/23/05 at 11:43am
Dell bios = 4-4-4-12 thats why.
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post #7 of 13
7/23/05 at 12:01pm
wtf? so theres no point in buying 4-4-4-8?
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post #8 of 13
7/23/05 at 12:33pm
There is a way to change it, people have gotten around harder edges than this
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post #9 of 13
7/23/05 at 12:40pm
I would love for someone coughcoughMichaelcoughcough to shine in on how to change it
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post #10 of 13
7/23/05 at 1:37pm
Sandra is not going to tell you ANYTHING about real world performance, especially memory benchmarks. I've seen all too much where a significant difference in Sandra means a < 1% difference in real applications. If the timings bother you that much, there's no real way to change that outside of modifying the bios. It's not going to make anything close to a noticeable difference.
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post #11 of 13
7/23/05 at 1:58pm
i'd also be interested in knowing how to running the memory faster than 4-4-4-11.... that's what i get w/ from cpu-z on my dell ram
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post #12 of 13
7/23/05 at 3:36pm
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Originally Posted by pokute
wtf? so theres no point in buying 4-4-4-8?
Correct.
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post #13 of 13
7/23/05 at 3:44pm
I wouldn't say there is not point.
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