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smakked

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From: Gold Coast , Australia

Registered: 2008-08-14

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Hardware Program

I am using Hardinfo but i want to know is there a program that tells you what speed your ram is running at? ie DDR2 @ 800 Mhz Running @ 900MHZ?
If you overclock this will prob make more sense to you.

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

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Re: Hardware Program

You could use memtest for that:

extra/memtest86+ 2.01-1 [0,05 MB]
    An advanced memory diagnostic tool

It's also on most LiveCDs.

Edit: And no, I don't think there's any program you could run normally, without rebooting. There's decode-dimms but that won't tell you the actual speed, only the EEPROM values.

Last edited by byte (2008-08-27 08:18:55)

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smakked

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From: Gold Coast , Australia

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Re: Hardware Program

Looking at that now No idea how to use it tho?
DO i just run it as a script?

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Re: Hardware Program

Memtest? If you modified your menu.lst according to the install instructions, you reboot and choose its entry in the grub menu.
For decode-dimms.pl, download it by clicking the "Original Format" link on the bottom of that page above, make sure you loaded the eeprom kernel module and then it's 'perl decode-dimms.pl'.

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Re: Hardware Program

I am using Hardinfo but i want to know is there a program that tells you what speed your ram is running at? ie DDR2 @ 800 Mhz Running @ 900MHZ?
If you overclock this will prob make more sense to you.

lshw might be what you are looking for. I'm not sure how reliable its output is, though.

Sample output:

     *-memory
          description: System Memory
          physical id: 16
          slot: System board or motherboard
          size: 2GiB
        *-bank:0
             description: SODIMM Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
             product: SODIMM000
             vendor: Mfg 0
             physical id: 0
             serial: 1234-B0
             slot: M1
             size: 1GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)
        *-bank:1
             description: SODIMM Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
             product: SODIMM001
             vendor: Mfg 1
             physical id: 1
             serial: 1234-B1
             slot: M2
             size: 1GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 667MHz (1.5ns)

If you invoke it with the -X switch you'll even get a gui version.