Your CPU and mobo and memory are 'matched'.
To get a new mobo, most run PC3200 memory - so you would want a new mobo, new CPU with 200FSB (800QDR) and new memory: basically a new computer :^(
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Host/dram clock ratio auto
This is where the memory speed is set, as a ratio to what the FSB (which is 'fixed') is running.
On most mobos the ratios describe multiples of PCI frequency which is 33MHz, in other words my PC runs 6:6 ratio (200MHz FSB : 200MHz memory (which is 400DDR, both).
You might see this as 400:400 or 1:1 but technically it is 200:200 (which is 33 x 6) so they (ABit) properly refer to it as 6:6.
Running 166FSB CPU with 400DDR (PC3200) memory would be 5:6 ratio, asynchronous. This is what I get on 'auto' but it is NOT the hot setup.
The memory and FSB should be synchronous if possible - this is the advice I have given you.
Intel does things a little different with P4. The FSB is quad-data-rate (QDR) not DDR like the DDR memory (and AMD FSB).
Intel runs 100 (400QDR), 133 (533QDR) and then they jump right to 200 (800QDR).
166FSB (which would be 666QDR) is not represented.
Your mobo, therefore, is not setup for synchronous 166 (333DDR = PC2700) operation, as there is no Intel P4 CPU running this FSB speed, capish?
Your ratio would be properly expressed as 4:4 (533QDR:266DDR).
To increase the memory clock to 333DDR, you would require 4:5 ratio.
If it is not offered, don't worry - run the memory synchronously, and like I said you can push the timings (if they can be manipulated in BIOS - some BIOS will automatically use only SPD settings retrieved from the SPD chip on the memory stick).
Brand-name Corsair memory will offer better timings at PC2100 speed (you) vs. PC2700 speed.
So, if you were able to increase the memory clock speed, your timings would grow longer (bad)!
Just run it - it will be stable & reliable, and as fast as it's gonna get :^)
Be happy...
Hope this helps,
L8R
