P6X58D-E, i7-950, and F3-16000CL9T-6GBTDD

[Kadin]

I was hoping someone could give me settings for the Ai tweeker with this combo. I have no experience at over-clocking and I would much rather have a stable setup then something that could fry my hardware a year down the road.

I'm running a corsair h50 on the processor but the airflow in my case (LIAN LI Lancool PC-K7B) is poor so I really don't want to push anything too high.

I really am not worried about not reaching 2000mhz, what I would much rather have is optimal settings for stability so that I don't have to worry that I'm slowly killing my machine.

If anything running them at 1600 would be fine, I just mainly want a stable setup.

P.S. I had NO idea that to get DDR3-2000 it requires so much over-clocking work. I literally thought that all I would have to do is plug it in

[Tradesman]

Try it at spec first Manually set speed to 2000, base timings 9-9-9-24, CMD Rate (CR) 2T, DRAM voltage to 1.6. If it doesn't work at that, simply change speed to 1600. If that works OK, you can try tightening the timings to 8-8-8-24 for a slight performance boost, if a problem there slide back to 9-9-9-24

[Kadin]

Sorry to be such a pain but when you say "manually set speed to 2000" I'm not quite sure what value you are referring too. I did turn X.M.P on on and said the ram was running at a little over 2000 but when I rebooted it said over-clock failed so I just went back to factory default so I would be able to boot.

[Tradesman]

To do it manually, you'll need to turn XMP off and then manually set the base timings, DRAM voltage, speed and CR.

[GSKILL TECH]

You can use XMP, but you need to find the precise voltage for QPI/DRAM Core Voltage. DDR3-2000 requires you to find the stable voltage, so trial and error (overclocking) is necessary. With the i7-950, it will be around 1.40V-1.60V.

If you set it to DDR3-1600 7-7-7-21, the motherboard should be able to support the proper QPI/DRAM Voltage.
Also, make sure you have the latest BIOS.

Thank you
GSKILL TECH