Setting Ram speed

[Hellmund]

You know how you can set the memory speed in X-X-X-X-X/X kind of way, with 'X' being numbers, e.g(Crucial PC133 CAS2
setting 2-2-2-5/7) how do you work out what it's set at already and how do you increase decrease, I don't understand what kind of formats it's in?

[OuTpaTienT]

The numbers are wait-states. Lower is better.

For example
2-2-2-2 is faster than
2-2-2-3 and both are faster than
3-3-3-3

[Hellmund]

So it's the CAS then? Anyhow how would you set it manually, what does each number repesent? e.g One is mili second, nano seconds.....

[OuTpaTienT]

Neither, it's clock cycles. Er...probably easier for me to find a web page that explains it...(gone on a Google search, brb)

Try this site (http://www.pcguide.com/ref/mbsys/bios/set/advchCacheTiming-c.html) or weed through the Google search results (http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=wait-states) yourself, there's plenty o' info there.

[This message has been edited by OuTpaTienT (edited 06-03-2001).]