SilverWS602
Vista Pro
First post here, might as well make it good and long 
Ffter pulling my hair out because I kept BSOD'ing due to the patch required to use 4gb of ram to use/install vista (seriously, wtf?). I got my machine up and running. I went from vista hp x86 to hp x64.
So my question is this (little backstory):
Way back when (3 days agho) I had this setup...
core 2 duo 6600
2 gb patriot extreme perf ram ddr2 800 4-4-4-12
asus p5ne-sli mobo (nforce 650i)
My ram would get a rating of 5.6, 5.9 when overclocked.
I changed out my ram for g-skill 2x4gb sticks (5-5-5-15), but when one was defective i put my old patriot ram back in (along with a NEW asus-p5ne mobo since my other one died), reinstalled vista x86 and the ram suddenly now gets rated as a 5.1
Fast forward to today...
new setup is as follows:
core 2 quad q6600
4gb patriot ram (same ram) 4 x 1gb
abit in9 32 max mobo (nforce 680i)
vista x64
With the 2 gb of RAM (the same 2 sticks that got a 5.6)... get rated at a 5.1 again in vista x64... when i added the additional 2gb, i get a 5.3.
Now before anyone asks, YES I:
changed the timings in the bios to 4-4-4-12 and adjusted the memory to proper voltage (2.2).
So FINALLY the question is this --- what would cause a drop in the RAM rating? I know its NOT the motherboard since it got hte same rating on both my p5ne-sli and this new abit board.
Ffter pulling my hair out because I kept BSOD'ing due to the patch required to use 4gb of ram to use/install vista (seriously, wtf?). I got my machine up and running. I went from vista hp x86 to hp x64.
So my question is this (little backstory):
Way back when (3 days agho) I had this setup...
core 2 duo 6600
2 gb patriot extreme perf ram ddr2 800 4-4-4-12
asus p5ne-sli mobo (nforce 650i)
My ram would get a rating of 5.6, 5.9 when overclocked.
I changed out my ram for g-skill 2x4gb sticks (5-5-5-15), but when one was defective i put my old patriot ram back in (along with a NEW asus-p5ne mobo since my other one died), reinstalled vista x86 and the ram suddenly now gets rated as a 5.1
Fast forward to today...
new setup is as follows:
core 2 quad q6600
4gb patriot ram (same ram) 4 x 1gb
abit in9 32 max mobo (nforce 680i)
vista x64
With the 2 gb of RAM (the same 2 sticks that got a 5.6)... get rated at a 5.1 again in vista x64... when i added the additional 2gb, i get a 5.3.
Now before anyone asks, YES I:
changed the timings in the bios to 4-4-4-12 and adjusted the memory to proper voltage (2.2).
So FINALLY the question is this --- what would cause a drop in the RAM rating? I know its NOT the motherboard since it got hte same rating on both my p5ne-sli and this new abit board.
