Newbie Cell Menu / QPI Frequency Question

[rcanino]

Big Bang X-Power
core i7 980X
G.Skill Ripjaw 12G (3x4G)
Gigabyte GTX470
Corsair HX850

Brand new build - POST ok. (BIOS is AMI vers 1.1) - no HDDs installed yet.

Hi Guys -

I'm having trouble understanding how to read the Cell Menu. Not looking to make changes right now, just understand.

At the top of the Cell Menu are 3 read-only frequencies: CPU, DRAM and QPI. The first 2 are fine but my QPI reads 4800MHz.
Further down in the Memory-Z section I see QPI Frequency is at 6400, but it's the "Adjusted QPI Frequency."

So my question is, what frequency is the QPI running at? Because 4800MHz isn't right for the Gulftown - it should be 6400MHz I think.

Thanks for bearing with a newcomer to this world of system building, and thank you in advance for any thoughts or advice you can share.

-Richard

 

[Jack the Newbie]

Ta-Da! Thank you thank you thank you!

The BIOS vers. now is 1.3 082010 and the fix worked - the QPI current freq is now correct. After re-installing the 2 sticks of RAM all 12G are recognized and the boot process is normal.

So many thanks - I appreciate your help very much Jack.

I think I'm actually almost ready to install my OS.

Which one is it going to be exactly?

. I need a little advice on the other updates on MSI's download page but maybe I should open a new thread for those?

Yes, perhaps another thread is not a bad idea in this case.

I'm sure I've exhausted your patience by now anyway!

Our patience is not that easy to exhaust, otherwise we wouldn't hang out here anymore. 

 

[rcanino]

I bought a retail Win 7 Pro I'll be installing the 64-bit version.

Thanks again for your help!