New guy here w/ a question (kinda long)

[SilverWS602]

First post here, might as well make it good and long

Ffter pulling my hair out because I kept BSOD'ing due to the patch required to use 4gb of ram to use/install vista (seriously, wtf?). I got my machine up and running. I went from vista hp x86 to hp x64.

So my question is this (little backstory):

Way back when (3 days agho) I had this setup...

core 2 duo 6600
2 gb patriot extreme perf ram ddr2 800 4-4-4-12
asus p5ne-sli mobo (nforce 650i)

My ram would get a rating of 5.6, 5.9 when overclocked.

I changed out my ram for g-skill 2x4gb sticks (5-5-5-15), but when one was defective i put my old patriot ram back in (along with a NEW asus-p5ne mobo since my other one died), reinstalled vista x86 and the ram suddenly now gets rated as a 5.1

Fast forward to today...

new setup is as follows:

core 2 quad q6600
4gb patriot ram (same ram) 4 x 1gb
abit in9 32 max mobo (nforce 680i)
vista x64

With the 2 gb of RAM (the same 2 sticks that got a 5.6)... get rated at a 5.1 again in vista x64... when i added the additional 2gb, i get a 5.3.

Now before anyone asks, YES I:

changed the timings in the bios to 4-4-4-12 and adjusted the memory to proper voltage (2.2).

So FINALLY the question is this --- what would cause a drop in the RAM rating? I know its NOT the motherboard since it got hte same rating on both my p5ne-sli and this new abit board.

 

[ripbox]

i also get a 5.1 rating with my ram too however i have seen this n.o change quite a few times when updating vista , if i remember correctly i have seen it go from 5.9 to 4.9 to 5.2 back to 5.1
i have near enough the same setup as you but dont forget the mobo we have and vista x 64 can support up to 32GB of ram

my system to compare


* Core 2 Quad Q6600
* Abit IN9 32 MAX Motherboard
* 4 GB OCZ 4GB PC2-5400 Vista Upgrade (2x2GB)
* ASUS 8800 GTX x 1
* 150GB Raptor HDD
* 500GB Caviar HDD
* Vista Home Premium x64

 

[Asky]

Guys i dont think you can totally depend on WEI Scoresd.It's known to be a bit weird.
I get a 5.9 with my RAM |@ DDR 2 750

 

[ripbox]

hehe yes you are correct
i know the £2500+ i spent building my system is my final score till i start upgrading again :P
like i said i have seen the pointage system change a few times so it is really just a rough guestimation's by M$
and my point wast not to worry about the low score of 5.1

 

[SilverWS602]

I'm not worried about the score my any means, just confused lol.

I use performance test 6.1, cpumark and 3dmark 06 for my benchmarks. When I ran those before I upgraded to 4gb I saw no drop in performance in my memory test results (mainly referring to perf test here), and I saw a noticeable increase when I put the additional 4gb in.

It's just weird the the same OS, on the same board, with same 2 sticks of ram (initially), caused a .6 drop in the score. Problem? Hardly... I'm just confused!

Offtopic:

ripbox, how long have you hard the board, any issues? I've only had it installed 3 days now.