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    Pavilion G6 Llano Memory Running At DDR3-400?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by CTM Audi, Nov 23, 2011.

  1. CTM Audi

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    I bought a G6-1B60US last night. A4-3300M which is supposed to support DDR3-1333, A75 chipset motherboard which also whould support DDR3-1333, and a single 4GB stick of Samsung 1333Mhz ram.


    CPU-Z doesnt say the ram speed, but shows the timings as 5-5-5. Aida64 says DRAM Ratio 6:3, real clock 200Mhz, effective clock 400Mhz, bandwith 3200MB/s.

    I get ~7000 in read/write/copy in Aida64.

    Both Aida and CPU-Z are reporting the timings as 5-5-5, which is the SPD for DDR3-380. If it was at 1333Mhz, the timings would be 9-9-9.

    Chatted with HP online support for a while, and first it was CPU-Z and AIDA64 were wrong, then it was you have to over clock the CPU to get 1333Mhz which isnt supported by HP. He had me run "winsat mem" through CMD and got 6GB/s, but didnt say if thats what it should be or not.

    Updated BIOS, and still reports the same.

    BIOS doesnt say ram speed, and neither does Windows or Belarc Adviser.



    Using K10Stat I can undervolt/overclock to 2.8Ghz so far, IBT stable with 73C max temps. Tried playing L4D2 (at 1360x768 meduim settings 8xAF 47FPS) and GPU-Z shows the video memory being stuck at 100Mhz, never changing. With the video memory being system shared, I was expecting to see it at 400Mhz as well.


    Can anyone else with an HP Llano, or any Llano laptop check to see what their ram speeds are? At hwbot.org, there is one A4-3300M thats been benched, and in the screenshot their CPU-Z shows the same as mine, no ram speed shown but timings of 5-5-5. It was with an ASUS laptop too, so Im wondering if its a driver, chipset, or CPU issue.


    Screenshot,
    http://i40.tinypic.com/2py272u.jpg