Memory Problem

[Zidoas]

So I bought two XMS sticks on the forum recently, one is a regular XMS stick and the other one is the "Platinum" edition with the silver heatspreader.

I put both sticks in my SFF Biostar iDeQ, they work, but only work as DDR333 instead of DDR400. Any ideas?

I came from a DDR400 512meg to this 1 gig, so I can definitely see the performance boost already. But what about the dropped speed? Would DDR333 really matter all that much vs. DDR400 in my SFF?

Think there might be a fix for this? I'm checking the Biostar SFF Bios right now.

Or maybe they are just not comparable with each other at DDR400 speed? ::shrugs::

Any help will be appreciated.

 

[Zidoas]

anyone?

 

[kirbyrj]

Can you manually set the SPD timings? I had a similar issue with "matched" sticks that had different "By SPD" auto timings. I ended up just selling them and getting different sticks.

 

[Zidoas]

I can set the SPD timings up to 166mhz in my SFF. HOWEVER, if I was to use only one stick, it sees it as DDR400 and I can set it to 200mhz.... weird....