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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: change memory speed?
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:01:57
Message-Id: AANLkTilTcXxgfn7K8f9nAtkcgsQM9J94oMYoLH1KH4kN@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: change memory speed? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 >> I have my DDR800 RAM specifically set to DDR800 in the BIOS, but I get:
2 >>
3 >> # lshw -short -C memory
4 >> H/W path  Device       Class      Description
5 >> =============================================
6 >> /0/0                   memory     64KiB BIOS
7 >> /0/3/5                 memory     256KiB L1 cache
8 >> /0/3/6                 memory     1MiB L2 cache
9 >> /0/24                  memory     4GiB System Memory
10 >> /0/24/0                memory     2GiB DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 400 MHz (2.5
11 >> ns)
12 >> /0/24/1                memory     2GiB DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 400 MHz (2.5
13 >> ns)
14 >> /0/24/2                memory     DIMM [empty]
15 >> /0/24/3                memory     DIMM [empty]
16 >> /0/4                   memory     RAM memory
17 >> /0/1.2                 memory     RAM memory
18 >> /0/1.4                 memory     RAM memory
19 >>
20 >> Does anyone know how to set the memory speed to 800 Mhz?
21 >
22 > DDR800 runs at 400Mhz, so everything is fine.
23 >
24 > For more details:
25 >
26 >  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR2_SDRAM#Chips_and_modules
27
28 Thank you Nikos.
29
30 - Grant