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Wednesday, March 02, 2005

MSI K7N2 Delta2 and DDR Timings

If you have this board and plan to change your mem timings, make sure to have B.30 (the older one) BIOS. I used to believe I had extremely low quality RAM (probably even fakes), Apacer DDR400 2.5-4-4-8 with ProMOS chips (2-4-4-7@166) which was extremely unstable whenever I tried changing the timings. Now, check these out:

2-4-4-7@166 2.6v PCMark2002: 4405 3DMark2001SE: 10017

2-2-2-11@166 2.6v PCMark2002: 4537 3DMark2001SE: 10269

Using these new timings and the R550EE@440/300 we'd from get 3DMark2001SE: 11044

EDIT: Turning the 'CPU Interface' to [Aggressive] gives another ~200 point boost. It claims to use 'CPU/FSB overclocked parameters', but all CPU and FSB values seem to still be in their default state.