Stupid ram or stupid Me?

[flawedreality5]

I'll probably go with the latter. Maybe I don't understand this too well but I was sure that ram runs at the same speed as the system bus. I have PC-3200 ram in my computer right now (2 x 512mb) with 2.5-3-3-8 timing. Why does my ram only come up as 167mhz and my FSB as 200mhz? I saw this program Everest in a recent thread and decided to check it out. I posted pictures of the results. Default (200mhz FSB) and overclocked (230mhz FSB). Why isn't the ram at 200mhz? Let me know if you need more info.

[flawedreality5]

Early afternoon bump. Can anyone explain my problem?

[glc]

Do you have the latest bios?

[flawedreality5]

Just updated it. Still at 167mhz for Ram. Although it did just add a bunch of new overclocking features.

[flawedreality5]

OK. I went looking through the BIOS for a good 10 minutes and realized that new options it gave me displayed the FSB to RAM ratio at 2:1.66 i think it said??? I changed it to 2:2. Everest benchmarking now thinks it's PC-3200, what I should have, so I don't know. It would seem odd to make that the default ratio. Maybe because it's the value select Corsair? I backed off the CPU overclock for now to make sure the RAM is stable.

[glc]

No big deal - if you want to overclock an A64 you will probably want to use a divider anyway - read the sticky thread. It's not going to make a difference because of how HTT works.