Hi,
I have corsair XMS2 (2 X 1GB) with 4-4-4-12 timings and an IC2D E4300 on a Gigabyte P965-DQ6 mobo. I have read that this memory is made to run at 2.1V but that Intel chipset based mobos run memory at 1.8V. In either case, I have set my cpu to 333 (gives 2997MHz) and left memory timings on auto and set memory voltage to +0.300V. CPU voltage is 1.3875 and the system is stable (Orthos, Memtest 86, etc.).
When I run this configuration, CPUZ reports memory timings of 5-5-5-15. Now that the system is stable, I decided to go back into the bios and set the memory timings to 4-4-4-12 but when I did that, the system became unstable (reboot during Orthos). Not knowing what I'm doing, I decided to try FSB voltage. The increments are in 0.05V so I tried 0.05, 0.10, 0.15 & 0.20 but it did not help.
Question is: where do I go from here? Do I leave the memory timings in auto (it irks me that I paid extra money for the faster memory only to run it slower) or is there something else I can tweak to get the system stable at the faster memory timings?
Thanks for the help!
Vlip
I have corsair XMS2 (2 X 1GB) with 4-4-4-12 timings and an IC2D E4300 on a Gigabyte P965-DQ6 mobo. I have read that this memory is made to run at 2.1V but that Intel chipset based mobos run memory at 1.8V. In either case, I have set my cpu to 333 (gives 2997MHz) and left memory timings on auto and set memory voltage to +0.300V. CPU voltage is 1.3875 and the system is stable (Orthos, Memtest 86, etc.).
When I run this configuration, CPUZ reports memory timings of 5-5-5-15. Now that the system is stable, I decided to go back into the bios and set the memory timings to 4-4-4-12 but when I did that, the system became unstable (reboot during Orthos). Not knowing what I'm doing, I decided to try FSB voltage. The increments are in 0.05V so I tried 0.05, 0.10, 0.15 & 0.20 but it did not help.
Question is: where do I go from here? Do I leave the memory timings in auto (it irks me that I paid extra money for the faster memory only to run it slower) or is there something else I can tweak to get the system stable at the faster memory timings?
Thanks for the help!
Vlip