Memory timings - too confusing - can anyone help?

[cmf21]

Putting together a new system. Everything is running fine. Had to find and correct the memory speed in the bios but I need to do the timings now and there are so many stinking options that I'm totally lost and don't know which ones need to be adjusted.

Motherboard is Asus P6X58D-E
Memory is Corsais CMX6GX3M3C1600C7 7-8-7-20

Going to take a screen shot of CPU-Z in a bit but which of these do I need to adjust? Too many darn settings.

Here are the settings from the manual. Too many to choose and change.

 

[Blain]

Set them to "Auto", it won't make any real world difference.
It's like tweaking a 56k modem to connect at 43k instead of 38k.

 

[Emulex]

yup - memtest is built into win7 now - prime95 too- you might stretch 1-2% performance for risk of stability - you can make that up using other methods (more ram; tweaking o/s; overclocking).

honestly i just take the hit with ecc ram these days; my win7 boxens with 8gb of ecc (ddr2/ddr3) never crash. the non-ecc cpu/boards have their days sometimes. who knows whats going on because a non-ecc cpu with a non-ecc ram and non-ecc bus (PCI-E) has no way of detecting faults (and correcting).

xeon's run ecc to the bus, to the ram, internally. its a good thing 😉

 

[Blain]

I like the idea of ECC memory. I just wish more hardware sold supported it.

 

[Yellowbeard]

My suggestion is to enter the BIOS and enable the XMP profile. This will set all the memory timings and voltage correctly for you. If you, want, take a good look at the BIOS before and after and you can compare and see what has been changed.