Memory configuration

[cavity]

I was wondering if someone could help me out?  I have a Soyo Dragon Plus mother board with an 800 mhz front side bus.  I have three memory slots.  I currently am running 1 stick of 512mb, 3200 DDR ram, in slot A, and 2 sticks of 256mb, 3200 DDR ram in slots B and C.  Am I limiting the FSB to 400 mhz because I am not running the Ram in parallel?  The instructions say to run like sticks in slots A and C to have the memory run in parallel.  Should I replace the two sticks of 256mb ram with one of 512mb and just use slots A and C?  Would that allow FSB of 800 mhz?  Todd

[Gixer]

I dont think it matters how many sticks of ram you have.  Your ram is 400MHz FSB (PC3200).  Its the Hyper Threading that boosts it to 800MHz I believe.  so dont worry stick with what you got  ;D

You could get a little prog called CPUz.  This will tell you exactly what FSB you are running at currently I just cant remember where I got it.  Someone put a thread up in one of these forums and I got it from the link there!

[Ivan]

FSB will stay at 400MHz, as that is the processor FSB limit

put the identical sticks in the slots that are 'in parralel', or get a second 512MB stick to replace the old 2x256 modules

[cavity]

Thanks for the information.  I thought I might be slowing things up a bit but it doesnt sound like after all.  Take care, Todd