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Old March 7th 08, 04:13 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance
Mark[_5_]
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Default Windows Performance Index RAM scores

See my reply to CMJ.
I think it's your motherboard.


"admuh" wrote in message
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Well, my timings were 4-3-3-10 1T on CPU-Z and the speed was 800mhz. My

RAM
is OCZ SLI 6400, all sticks are at the same. However, I OC'd the RAM to
850Mhz and changed the timings to 4-4-4-12 2T and Vista scored it the same
which seems a bit odd. I think even DDR1 RAM can score higher than 5.4 as
well. I think it's either Vista or my motherboard, unless I have a

bandwidth
issue because of the Q6600. Thanks for the suggestions,

"CJM" wrote:


"Mark" wrote in message
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It has been seen in some cases that the clock speed of the CPU and the

bus
speed of the memory may not be a good match. _Sometimes_ with

DDR2-6400,
it
is better to slow it down to 667MHz in the BIOS.


When overclocking, it is often better to make sure the RAM:FSB ration is
1:1, and hence you often choose to reduce the RAM speed, but in general

use,
I've never come across a situation where properly rated RAM is better

run at
a lower frequency.