A-Data & Gigabyte Proper Settings

[Richard.Cross]

Hi, I recently bought these two items and my ram underclocks at 1333mhz instead of the 1600mhz that it supposed to, does anyone know how to fix this?

Also the voltage seems to set it self at 1.5v I tried setting it to 1.65 but my mb only allows 1.64.

RAM:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128420


Motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820211409


Thank you.

 

[ekoostik]

What CPU did you purchase? The only socket 1156 CPUs that support 1600 MHz without OCing are the i7 860 and i7 870. Unless something has changed with the Clarkdale CPUs, you will not be able to run RAM faster than 1333 MHz without OCing for an i3 or i5 chip.

Your RAM has a very wide range of V almost, and basically, entirely over the recommended spec for an 1156 (or even 1366) CPU. RAM for these new systems should be at most 1.65V. Gigabyte only allows for chaning DRAM V in increments of 0.02, so you'll want to leave it at 1.64V. If you end up running at 1333 MHz, you may want to try lowering the DRAM V and see if you can get it stable at less V, for example 1.6 or even 1.5.

 

[Richard.Cross]

What CPU did you purchase? The only socket 1156 CPUs that support 1600 MHz without OCing are the i7 860 and i7 870. Unless something has changed with the Clarkdale CPUs, you will not be able to run RAM faster than 1333 MHz without OCing for an i3 or i5 chip.

Your RAM has a very wide range of V almost, and basically, entirely over the recommended spec for an 1156 (or even 1366) CPU. RAM for these new systems should be at most 1.65V. Gigabyte only allows for chaning DRAM V in increments of 0.02, so you'll want to leave it at 1.64V. If you end up running at 1333 MHz, you may want to try lowering the DRAM V and see if you can get it stable at less V, for example 1.6 or even 1.5.

i5 750 is what I got, did not know it didn't support 1600mhz mem, will my mem be okay at running 1333mhz, I mean it won't cause any damage to my mem running at a lower speed? since I do not feel like OCing my cpu.

 

[ekoostik]

It will not hurt your RAM to run it at 1333 MHz. In fact, you might even be able to run with lower V, for example see if it's stable at 1.6V. You could also try tightening the timings. Either way, once you have it running, test it with memtest86+: http://www.memtest.org/

 

[Richard.Cross]

It will not hurt your RAM to run it at 1333 MHz. In fact, you might even be able to run with lower V, for example see if it's stable at 1.6V. You could also try tightening the timings. Either way, once you have it running, test it with memtest86+: http://www.memtest.org/

Right now it is running at 1.5v at 1333mhz, which is what the MB defaults it on the auto setting, the lower (1.5v) will not hurt the ram or will it?

 

[ekoostik]

Nope, won't hurt it. If it's stable at 1.5V that's even better. You can set it to 1.5V if you want, I like to set values when I know what they should be because "auto" can sometimes change depending on other settings. I don't think DRAM Voltage is one of the settings that would ever change, but since you've already looked into may as well set it so it's 'permanent'.