optimising your memory

[OldBloke]

Black.

[Doorman]

Originally posted by OldBloke@Sep 26 2003, 02:33 PM
Black.

Niiice!

[smilodon]

Well sod me if I didn't actually understand that Cadaver. Well done.


Of course I'll forget it all by Saturday.   :unsure:

[brass]

Remember all the time till Saturday Smilo I'm impressed. I'd forgotten what I was reading about at the bottom of the post. But (Conjunction to start sentence to pee Smilo off) I did understand whilst I was reading gj Cadaver.

[TeaLeaf]

Cadaver, well written.

This effect is known in overclocking circles as running your RAM 'loose'.  It is summarised by this simple paragraph:

You have overclocked your system so far, that the memory cannot keep up with the nice tight timings that were originally set in BIOS when the system was at stock speeds.  To fix the problem you give the RAM more time to do its job, you loosen the settings (or back them off depending on your terminology) by increasing tRAS.

Cadaver is absolutely right, you will not see a jot of difference on most systems.  You will only see a slight improvement in benchmarking on overclocked systems generally, but not just nForce2 motherboards.  This is a universal feature of overclocked systems, it just so happens that the bulk of overclocked systems out there at the moment run on nForce2 mobos.

TL.