I have a K8T Neo2 motherboard and I’m wondering what to set my bios settings at for the type of cpu and ram that I have.
Here is what I have:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (1 GHZ FSB – not integrated into chip)
768 MB of PC3200 RAM
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
Windows XP
Right now, in my bios the HT Frequency is at 800 Mhz. My CPU FSB Frequency is at 200 Mhz. Should I change these? It does not show any multipliers or anything. The memclock value is at DDR200. My CPU has a 1 Ghz FSB.
I am a total newb when it comes to Bios settings. So if someone could help me out I’d appreciate it! I tried setting it to DDR400 once and my computer crashed when I was playing games. So I don’t know why cause I thought it could handle DDR400.
you cant change the multipliers, they’re permenantly locked on 939 cpus, you dont have to change anything, and ddr “multiplier” should be at 2 so its ddr400
id recommend downloading sisoftware sandra, theres a free personal version, it tells you information about almost every content of the computer including in to depth info on memory, cpu settings, etc.
Since your processor is a 3000+ then it should be 200x9=1800Mhz, so 200FSB is just fine unless you’d like to overclock it? It’s weird that it would crash like that, you have DDR400/PC3200, there shouldn’t be any conflict assuming all your ram dimms are PC3200. I guess by setting it too DDR400 it was actually doubling that too PC800? As with the multiplyer at 2 for Double Data Rate it should check out, I guess your bios is rather misleading. Keep it as it is then unless you plan to overclock things.
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you cant change the multipliers, they’re permenantly locked on 939 cpus, you dont have to change anything, and ddr “multiplier” should be at 2 so its ddr400
id recommend downloading sisoftware sandra, theres a free personal version, it tells you information about almost every content of the computer including in to depth info on memory, cpu settings, etc.
On all but the Athlon FX’s, the multiplier is locked upwards, but you can drop the multiplier down.
Those settings are stock, and if you want to OC, you’ll need to adjust the HTT. You’re probably not going to get very high, since the K8T800 chipset doesn’t have locked PCI and AGP busses. Realistically, if you’re trying to overclock, you’ll probably top out around 215-220MHz on the HTT—which is sorta the equivalent on the Athlon 64’s.