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OCZ Black Edition
Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 4:20 pm
by Wavid
I looked through CPU-Z today and i noticed that my RAM (
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... -_-Product) is listed as PC3-5800F. what BIOS settings do i need to configure to run it at the rated speed of 1600 MHz, 8-8-8-24 timings?
Re: OCZ Black Edition
Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 4:41 pm
by Apoptosis
What does the memory tab of CPU-Z show? Post it up here if you could. Don't look at the SPD tab.
Re: OCZ Black Edition
Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 5:26 pm
by Wavid
the picture is added as an attachment..does it work?
Re: OCZ Black Edition
Posted: Tue May 18, 2010 2:58 am
by DMB2000uk
Yeah it works
You'll need to find the BIOS page that has all the voltage and frequency settings.
Find whichever is the RAM frequency and if it's showing the speed as 533.3Mhz now, change it to 800Mhz. Else if it's showing as 1066Mhz now, change it to 1600Mhz. That might sound backwards logic, but they'll be same speed, it just depends on how the BIOS is displaying the frequency (as DDR means dual data rate, which effectively doubles the actual clock speed, so some BIOS' show the effective speed (1600) while others show the actual (800)).
And on that same page there should be the CAS timings, just throw in your 8-8-8-24 in the CL, rRCD, tRP and tRAS fields respectively (leave any further sub-timings on auto if you aren't sure what they should be at).
You might have to make sure that the voltage is at 1.65v instead of the usual stock 1.5v
Dan