My new rig (shown in my signature, all timings except FSB set to 'AUTO') seems a little slow in windows; booting into it it takes a bit longer than I'd like (the start button, quicklaunch and system tray are all blanked out for a little while and programs are very slow to respond for a minute or so after) and generally (even when it's been on for hours) some folder navigation seems sluggish; I go to open some folders and there's a second or so pause/freeze before it actually opens it up- very annoying, and not something that my 3500+ did...
I wanted to blame my BIOS settings for the RAM but I fail to believe this could be the problem as when I manually set my timings to the standard 4-4-4-15 it got even MORE sluggish (the AUTO mode seems to have them at 5-4-5-9).
Here's the thing with the current release of CPU-Z; it doesn't seem to like my mobo/BIOS as it reports i have 2048mb (correct) in Dual channel mode (also correct) DDR3 ram (clearly incorrect) at a frequency of 375MHz (correct) FSB
RAM 1:1 (correct) but my timings are showing 32-6-14-13 on CPU-Z's memory tab.
I'm thinking this is likely just a BIOS reading issue; I believe the board can support DDR3 but just doesn't have the sockets for it and it's causing some conflict which is making CPU-Z read wrong, and there are no BIOS updates for this board as of yet.
There are some more memory timing options in my BIOS for which I do not know the correct setting; they are TWR, TRFC, TWTR, TRRC & TRTP. Can someone enlighten me?
All drivers installed properly and this is a clean XP install with all updates on board.
Any suggestions? Really not loving the fact that my 3500+ seems to run windows more smoothly than my new Conroe at 3GHz does...
p.s. also entirely unsure of voltages for ram & cpu, pretty much just leaving that to the board but could this also be an issue? Also, this isnt only a problem when i'm overclocked but it does seem to be getting worse...
I wanted to blame my BIOS settings for the RAM but I fail to believe this could be the problem as when I manually set my timings to the standard 4-4-4-15 it got even MORE sluggish (the AUTO mode seems to have them at 5-4-5-9).
Here's the thing with the current release of CPU-Z; it doesn't seem to like my mobo/BIOS as it reports i have 2048mb (correct) in Dual channel mode (also correct) DDR3 ram (clearly incorrect) at a frequency of 375MHz (correct) FSB
RAM 1:1 (correct) but my timings are showing 32-6-14-13 on CPU-Z's memory tab.I'm thinking this is likely just a BIOS reading issue; I believe the board can support DDR3 but just doesn't have the sockets for it and it's causing some conflict which is making CPU-Z read wrong, and there are no BIOS updates for this board as of yet.
There are some more memory timing options in my BIOS for which I do not know the correct setting; they are TWR, TRFC, TWTR, TRRC & TRTP. Can someone enlighten me?
All drivers installed properly and this is a clean XP install with all updates on board.
Any suggestions? Really not loving the fact that my 3500+ seems to run windows more smoothly than my new Conroe at 3GHz does...
p.s. also entirely unsure of voltages for ram & cpu, pretty much just leaving that to the board but could this also be an issue? Also, this isnt only a problem when i'm overclocked but it does seem to be getting worse...
