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  • Ares Overclocking to 2400...

    Hi all

    I bought this wonderful memory a couple weeks ago the G-Skill Ares F3-2133C11D-8GAO. 1st impressions about overclocking weren't that good and it was hard to get it stable at 2200Mhz demanding almost 1.70v of ram voltage. Pretty boring right. Anything that I could set like setting the timings a little higher, more SA and IO voltage, nothing was letting the ram stable at less dram voltage.
    Weeks past a couple of beta bios in between and this week I started doing some undervolting, that might be fun I thought. And it was
    Got around 1.56vram at 2133Mhz XMP1, that was nice
    Slowing down the clock to 2000Mhz XMP1 got 1.31vram woot, things getting better.
    Again at 1866Mhz it was right into 1.25vram and probably doing even less dram voltage than that cause I stopped my testing there. In conclusion to the undervolting if you want some nice performance memory and good power saving this kit its really good and I was surprised when I was running the memtest on DOS with CPU stock settings and MSI Active Phased Switching circuit turned on it didn't pass the 2 phase power level .

    Now with such great results at undervolting I wanted to try overclock again and finally got some good results. As you can see in the screeshots it is setting to 2400Mhz at 1.65vram and timings of 11-13-11-35-2T. Currently trying to get to 2600Mhz but failing miserably.

    - MSI Z77A-GD65 (v10.6b7 Bios) - Intel Core i5-3570K E1 @ 4.6 Ghz - G.Skill Ares F3-2133C11-8GAO @ 2400 Mhz (11-13-11-35-2N) - Asus GTX 560Ti 448 - Samsung 830 128GB - WD Blue 500GB - Corsair AX750 - Noctua NH-D14 - SilverStone Raven 3 -

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    Got a good rig there, to hit 2400 (if you can) will prob take loosening to CL12, it's a good set of sticks with latitude for OC and underclock, maybe they'll get another BIOS update that will improve things even more


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    Tman

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