After looking at the memory speeds of both my desktop and laptop something feels up. My laptop has DDR3 1600 with an intel i5, my desktop is an A10-5800k with G.Skill Ares DDR3 2133 on an Asrock A85x board. These are my readings, desktop left, laptop right.
Can somebody please help me figure out what's going on with my desktop?
That reports a higher RAM speed (1064 roughly) so half of 2133 which is its effective clock speed, but what's with windows not recognizing that it's 2133. As it recognizes my laptop with 1600.
I use MSI Afterburner and it can log the rig rather well but it does not like 64-bit games too much.
Rage seems to like 64-bit better on my box, more than double the framerate in 64-bit mode.
AMD uses Cool & Quiet, most of the time my CPU is running at 800 MHz and my RAM is also downclocked.
When I play a game, the Phenom jumps right in and gets to work. Running the taskman the CPU is not generally saturated.
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Corsair Carbide 300R, TX850V2, Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0, Phenom II 965 C3 BE, G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3-2133 8 GB, GTX 260 SLI, Asus PA238QR, Windows 7 x64 Enterprise
Asus M4A77D, Athlon64 X2 4200+, DDR2-800 6 GB, HD 5450, cheap 450W, Server 2012
I would like to also add the little wrinkle that in the SPD section of CPU-Z that it reports the Max Bandwidth of each DIMM at PC3-12800 or 800MHz. Clearly something is very very wrong. Also, the RAM I am using isn't technically on ASRock's list of supported RAM. To be fair their list is comprised of items no longer sold on newegg.
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02/07/2013 10:40 PM
