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Aug 6th, 2009 at 1:33pm

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I have a Giga-Byte -P35-Ds4 Ultra Durable2  Motherboard.
I have to questions because i cant understand some things.When i go to system in the end it says.

Intel(R)
Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80 GHz
3.23GHz, 2.00GB of RAM
Physical Address Extension

1st question. What is that 3.23 Ghz? Is it the max the processor can go or is the real Dual core speed?Or is the cache speed? My "all day pc" is a AMD 64 and it only say 2.4GHz on the cpu.

2nd question.You can see there that i have 2gb or ram (one stick,max 4 i can instal).
In the program for overclocking and system description from the MB it say "Slot 1 1024 mb"?????????.Everest say 2gb, Sandra say 1024mb
Is there something wrong???
Many Thanks
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Reply #1 - Aug 6th, 2009 at 11:16pm

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What does Gigabyte say?
 
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Reply #2 - Aug 7th, 2009 at 4:59am

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That 3.23Ghz (whatever) If I'm correct that is the current CPU speed, so it is currently overclocked Wink

The RAM is probably the software bad reading, a lot of programs like what you used to double check it can make errors, just like a few of them say my GPU is 1Gb when it is 512Mb Wink

For RAM reading go with CPU-Z or just Windows (Because it reads what it is using Wink)
 

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Reply #3 - Aug 7th, 2009 at 8:06am

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Thanks for the reply.
I could not find anything about it on the giga-byte page.
This a is a 2.6 processor which with the gigabyte overclocking program i set it to 2.8ghz.So what is that 3.23ghz.
CPU-z say that the processor is at 2806.6 GHZ, and it say 4096 memory???????!!!!!! Shocked Huh

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Reply #4 - Aug 7th, 2009 at 11:08am

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The processor the motherboard allows depends on the BIOS update and what microcode is installed that will recognize the processor installed. In most cases with the most recent BIOS a user can run any Core2/Q processor if the motherboard was made in 2007 or later... you must check the compatibility at the website for the board. They will usually list the processor and the BIOS revision needed to run it

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The Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 is based around Intel's highly successful P35 Express and ICH9R chipsets. It supports Intel Celeron D, Pentium 4/D/XE and Core 2 Duo/Quad processors running on an 800/1066/1333 MHz FSB.
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How far overclocking allows past the CPU speed of the proc depends on the proc, heatsink and memory installed.... and the users experience in clocking safely


As for the memory.. some video cards share memory with the system.. that can make the installed memory amount look different than it actually is in Windows.

On the CPUz memory tab it will show you the total amount of physical memory installed. On the SPD tab (drop down) it will show you what is in each slot
 
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Reply #5 - Aug 12th, 2009 at 4:12am

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I had that motherboard and had the same issue with the CPU speed reporting incorrectly like yours.
I believe windows reports the speed by checking your front side bus speed and multipies by the stock multiplier. If you up the bus speed but lower the multiplier it doesn't catch the lowered multiplier therefore giving a higher speed than you are actually running.

I killed that board by flashing the bios with what turned out to be a bad processor installed, may it rest in peace. Sad
 
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