The cold boot has gotten worse after watercooling

[Macgruber]

not the first post I've seen complaining that higher-speed Corsair RAM does reach advertised specs.

thanks Larry, good to hear this from you. I guess i got taken buying the 1866mhz ram that doesnt even outperform their 1600mhz ram 🙁

 

[2is]

Are you running 2x8GB or 4x4GB sticks? It's not uncommon to have to reduce speed or increase latencies (timings) or increase voltage with 4 sticks of memory. I have 4 G.Skill DIMMs rated at 8-8-8 and would have odd issues booting every once in a while. Sometimes it would power on but black screen. Other times it would power on, get to my windows logon screen, and would hang there after entering my password for 20-30 seconds, and when it finally logged in, everything would run very buggy. Reduced timings to 9-9-9 and it's been smooth sailing since. Makes me wish I'd have went with 2x8GB sticks (not really sure why I didn't)

 

[Macgruber]

Are you running 2x8GB or 4x4GB sticks? It's not uncommon to have to reduce speed or increase latencies (timings) or increase voltage with 4 sticks of memory. I have 4 G.Skill DIMMs rated at 8-8-8 and would have odd issues booting every once in a while. Sometimes it would power on but black screen. Other times it would power on, get to my windows logon screen, and would hang there after entering my password for 20-30 seconds, and when it finally logged in, everything would run very buggy. Reduced timings to 9-9-9 and it's been smooth sailing since. Makes me wish I'd have went with 2x8GB sticks (not really sure why I didn't)

yeah i originally bought 2x4 (8gb dual channel) at the store... and i needed more so i figured i should probably buy another set of dual channel so i wont have ODD problems of 2x4 dual channel and 1x8 non dual channel

when i set the ram to 1866 and leave voltage at auto it goes to 1.66x which is insane... when i set xmp it sets to 1866 but keeps at 1.502, im a bit scared to mess with the timings, as im already innexperienced as it is..


i got another thread up where im just going through my stock to oc steps again hoping i can get it right but im already hitting bumps in the road. i dont know if i should mess with oc at all if i cant get this memory to function at what its advertised 🙁

 

[fixbsod]

Have you tried running the RAM at 1600 leaving everything else as is and seeing how this works?

 

[2is]

yeah i originally bought 2x4 (8gb dual channel) at the store... and i needed more so i figured i should probably buy another set of dual channel so i wont have ODD problems of 2x4 dual channel and 1x8 non dual channel

when i set the ram to 1866 and leave voltage at auto it goes to 1.66x which is insane... when i set xmp it sets to 1866 but keeps at 1.502, im a bit scared to mess with the timings, as im already innexperienced as it is..


i got another thread up where im just going through my stock to oc steps again hoping i can get it right but im already hitting bumps in the road. i dont know if i should mess with oc at all if i cant get this memory to function at what its advertised 🙁

Yeah, you certainly want to run in pairs to maintain dual channel functionality. Once you have your memory issues sorted, I'd say you're safe giving overclocking a shot. You're only adjusting multiplier at that point so it really shouldn't have an adverse affect on stability. Stability as it relates to memory settings anyway.

 

[Macgruber]

im still wondering what to do with my PLL and vdroop, many people told me DONT leave it on [Auto] at 4.4ghz