hi Guys, this is a follow on from my previous thread "no boot no nothin" Ive put a new mobo and cpu in my pc for the first time and i just wanted to check that ive done it correctly and there not a problem waiting to rear its head. I just basically plugged everything into it and switched on, reinstalled drivers for gpu and sc and away i go. Seems to be working fine. I know nothing of bios etc so im wondering are there settings i should check, updates i should get or software i should install to make sure everything is on the correct settings etc? ta Max The new mobo and cpu is Asrock 2CORE1333-2.66G Socket 775 Motherboard plus E2140 Overclocked to 2.66GHz
Well, if your PC is ok & working fine theres no reason to mess around in the bios. The only thing that may be a miss is the Date & Time. But its extremely easy to change & is one of the first settings you see in the BIOS. Have you installed the new drivers for your mobo?
i'd recomend a fresh install of windows, unless your new mobo is the same as old....or has the same chipset. Also if you know how to then tune your mem timings. You'll notice the diff compared to defaults its running on. Nippier performance.
thx..yeh i think a fresh install may well be what i need... its a diff mobo and chipset.. and no i havnt installed drivers for the mobo.. i didnt realise it needs any.. opps Any tutorials about on tuning mem timings?
First thing is to check what the memory you bought is capable of, then see what the motherboard has decided to set. You can look in BIOS, or CPU-Z will show the timings. If you think the board is being too conservative you can adjust the main timings in BIOS or in Win with Memset. You may need to increase memory voltage to get the better timings, check the RAM spec. Most BIOS set 1.8V whatever the RAM. Leave the "Others Timings" alone until you really know what you're doing. And it's a good idea with a new board to run it a few days on default settings just to check everything runs sweet.
I really really think that he shouldnt be going into the bios & messing with Memory timings. Do you? Plus its an ASRock motherboard & (generally) they dont have memory timing configurations in their BIOS's
It makes surprisingly little difference anyway (bearing in mind the price difference for low-latency RAM). Going from 5-5-5-15 to 4-4-4-12 Everest tells me Read speed has gone from 5920 to 6006Mb/s, Write 5240 to 5266 and Copy 5106 to 5297. About 3.75% increase.
I noticed quicker responsiveness in windows when I altered my timings and great increase in score on pcmark, I know what I know from playing with stuff I don't understand. Its your PC so play around, if you manage to break something damn thats impressove unless of course your playing with voltages and don't check recomended threshholds before hand You learn by tampering and fixing what you break. If you've got high end components then dont worry about it, prob wont notice the diff but with my jippo rig I noticed vast improvement by jacking up the voltage n lowering the timings and a lil fsb overclock and then various windows tweaks.
