I have a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 board with the Q6600@stock and 4gb 800Mhz ram
(2x2gb) running 5-5-5-15 timings and vista is giving me 5.5 as the score.
Just something to compare it to.
Robert

"admuh" wrote in message
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Well, I had a play with FSB, I put it up to 1200 and my cpu multiplyer to
8x
and my RAM to 800. I got .1 better on the windows performance index
although I still think 5.5 is low. I think it's likely to be a bandwidth
issue although underclocking my cpu to 2.1 didnt change things either (not
even the processor score). Thanks for the help so far

"Mark" wrote:

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.