Re: [newbie] Advanced Chipset Features/bios settings

2003-04-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Ryan Moe wrote: On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 06:46, John Richard Smith wrote: I don't think so, never heard of anyone having problems with it.The KT266a nomenclature is something of a Mobo nomenclaute I think, the chip that works with memory is VIA, VT8366A (552BGA), which the manual stipulate is a

Re: [newbie] Advanced Chipset Features/bios settings

2003-04-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Ryan Moe wrote: On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 03:39, John Richard Smith wrote: Thanks Ryan , I have a MSI K7T266 Pro2 Mobo, capable of up to 3.0gigs of memory. I cannot find a reference to the memory controller in the mobo manual. It does say you can install PC1600/PC2100 DDR SDRAM modules

Re: [newbie] Advanced Chipset Features/bios settings

2003-04-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Thanks Ryan , I wondered whether 4QW and 8QW might be something to do with memory.But, Ryan Moe wrote: If you have SDRAM don't worry about it. I have 512BM of DDR Ram. It doesn't make a difference. However if you have DDR then setting the burst rate to 4qw instead of 8qw will make your averag

Re: [newbie] Advanced Chipset Features/bios settings

2003-04-03 Thread Ryan Moe
If you have SDRAM don't worry about it. It doesn't make a difference. However if you have DDR then setting the burst rate to 4qw instead of 8qw will make your average bandwidth the same as SDRAM (although you'll still have twice the peak bandwidth). What m/b and memory controller are you using?

[newbie] Advanced Chipset Features/bios settings

2003-04-03 Thread John Richard Smith
My AMI bios has a section "Advance Chipset Features" In there is a section BURST LENGTH with the options 4QW and 8QW According to handbook this allows you to set the size of the Burst-Length for DRAM. The bigger the size the faster the DRAM performance. I altered my bios setting to 8QW from 4Q