Probably your timings are out of line with the processor's efficient timings. Or it might just be another 680i bug, Nvidia's mobos are famous for bugs anyways.

Whether it passes or not isn't the questio, whether it's optimal, now that's the answer. Try loosening your timings abit, updating your BIOS and checking out the other settings.

Like i said, not all memory controller operate better as the latency is turned down, it's a simple fact of computing, it actually might even miss cycles more due to the lower latency not working well with the MCH's internal timings. Ns is measure of memory latency and it's respond to commands, i won't be surprised if i see a RAM timed at 2.5-2-2-7 performing better than one at 2-2-2-5 depending on chipset.

Stability and GMHC timings aren't the same thing, the only way to get optimal timings is by trail and error and testing. You also haven't mentioned other memory settings like clock skew and such that might affect the timing. So just relax the timings and see. Either it's a bug with the motherboard's mem controller, which Nvidia is famous for or the software, in which case i would recommend SPEC latency numbers or atleast the CPU-Z timed ones.

This post has been edited by empire23: Mar 31 2007, 05:53 PM