Best latencies for DDR3 1600 running at 1333

[steved]

Hi,

I bought some DDR3 1600 for an i5 system with rated timings 7-8-7-24 2N at 1600MHz

RAM model no is F3-12800CL7D-4GBRM

Problem is when I enable XMP in my bios it clocks the RAM up to 1600MHz but knocks out my turbo boost. Seems like anything past a bclk of 150 on my mobo (Asus P7P55D-E) disables it.

I'd like to be able to keep the turbo on and keep the CPU running at stock speed most of the time. I figured I could lower the timings on the RAM instead of increasing the bclk and get a bit of a performance boost that way.

Just wanting to know if there is a safe limit on how low I should set it the timings?

The system is actually stable with the RAM at 1333MHz and the timings at 6-6-6-18 1N. I didn't try anything lower than that.

Thanks,
Steve

[steved]

It won't work for a week then blow up if I set them too low will it

Read that somewhere ... still fairly new to all of this

[GSKILL TECH]

No, rarely does anything blow up.

Intel only considers DDR3-1333 to be safe/max, consequently the TurboBoost will be disabled for DDR3-1600+

Thank you
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