Memory timings

[Pandora]

Howdy guys, it's me again :p You may remember me from such threads as "Sudden Death."

Anyway, I am now running 4G of ram (4x1G sticks). I have 2 questions.

According to the ram specs on newegg's website, my ram timings should be 4-4-4-12, 2.1V, and CAS latency=4. These numbers mean nothing to me, really (except for the volts). When I look in my BIOS setup, it appears that they are running 5-5-5-17. Exactly what am I setting to 4-4-4-12?

Second, in my system properties, it says I'm running 2.75G of ram. Um, wtf? Is this because the timing defaults are incorrect?

Thanks again for help!

[Heartborne]

Hm... it looks like your memory is overclocked. What kind of RAM did you get? Is it overclocked by default? That seems odd.

I have the same issue with Windows XP. I can't figure it out either. I'm upgrading to 64 bit vista as soon as I can.

[mjc]

The memory amount is XP 32 bit thing...

Any 32 bit OS can only use 4 GB of RAM...XP just doesn't deal with anything over 3 GB very well. The good news is, unlike 9x, when you install more than it likes, it will still run and not crash.