this is what it shows in AMI desktop client manager, also says it in the manual. and if what your saying is true that the 530 is not even capable of it and Pcchips stated it because it will run the ram just not do ecc, then somebody should of sued them and held them liable since this was one of many fib's remember the m590 also the m599v5!
Last edited by jrobbinson; 05-18-2003 at 02:07 AM.
What AMI DCM shows is just the data from the DMI information record; this is just a bunch of data someone before you has filled out. You can safely discard that information, since outside networked environments, noone ever does that accurately.
If you feel like it, sue them. But you won't get far. Outside the lawyer-driven US, disclaimers like "this manual may contain errors and typos" still count.
Besides, what's the point? You're not seriously going to run such a low end board with expensive ECC RAM?
OK, here I am again.
I've just installed 256 MB of RAM on my Abit BH6-based computer. In the "Chipset Features" part of BIOS, there are some options with regards to CAS, etc., and I am not quite sure what I can or should do with those. They are the following:
-SDRAM RAS-to-CAS delay (currently set at 3, possible to set to 2)
-SDRAM RAS precharge time (same)
-SDRAM CAS latency time (set to Auto. My memory model is CAS2, so it should be using that, right?)
-SDRAM precharge control (currently Disabled)
While various memory guides mention CAS quite often, the other things are not metioned that much, and I am nor sure whether I can change some of these settings to get faster speeds or whether I am limited by my chipset? Or am I limited also my the memory module?
I have an explanation of these settings in my manual, but it doesn't discuss the actual values for the settings. What could anyone explain/recommend to me?
Thanks,
Those memory timing adjustments don't amount to a hill of beans in anything but benchmarking. We are talking about nanoseconds here. Hey - a nanosecond here and a nanosecond there and, pretty soon, you're talking about microseconds, but only after a million or so.
What memory timings you can use depends entirely on the quality of your RAM. Go ahead and set those to 2 and see if it works. If it does and you notice a performance increase, I'll eat a floppy disk.
Careful there, I have some eight-inchers floating around in the attic.
Going from worst to best timings in 100-MHz SDRAM on Intel BX has a raw performance delta of about 10 percent. In SDRAM access that is. In actual application performance, after going through the CPU, its caches and the chipset's buffers, it's hardly noticeable UNLESS the application is very memory intensive, or has lots of traffic going to and fro PCI devices.
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