Hi there. I have overclocked my i7-950 on a ASUS RAMPAGE III EXTREME board. I only wanted a moderate perfomance boost so i shot for and obtained just a tad over 3600mhz.
My question is to do with memory timing.
I have 6GB of DDR3 ram (DDR3-1600 PC3-12800) 3X2GB sticks. I kept my BCLK down and stuck with a 23 multi. because this gave me a choice of just under 1600mhz on my ram. (On this board the ram freq. is tied to the BCLK on the cpu then you get a multiple choice of freq. from a pop-up list). When it comes to setting the ram timing i get to select my tCL, tRCD & tRP but when i want to select the tRAS, i get another pop-up list of multiple choices from very low to '17' The timing specified by G. SKILL is 9-9-9-24 but all i can get is 9-9-9-17.
At this time i have set all of these values to 'Auto' and my timing is showing up as 9-9-9-24 on CPUZ with a DRAM BUS voltage of 1.5v (which i manually set per G. SKILL spec) I have put my set up through all of the Prime 95 stress tests with all passes. So my question is: Am i doing the right thing here or should i be doing something else with my timing and if so how?
Thanks in advance from a complete noob.
My question is to do with memory timing.
I have 6GB of DDR3 ram (DDR3-1600 PC3-12800) 3X2GB sticks. I kept my BCLK down and stuck with a 23 multi. because this gave me a choice of just under 1600mhz on my ram. (On this board the ram freq. is tied to the BCLK on the cpu then you get a multiple choice of freq. from a pop-up list). When it comes to setting the ram timing i get to select my tCL, tRCD & tRP but when i want to select the tRAS, i get another pop-up list of multiple choices from very low to '17' The timing specified by G. SKILL is 9-9-9-24 but all i can get is 9-9-9-17.
At this time i have set all of these values to 'Auto' and my timing is showing up as 9-9-9-24 on CPUZ with a DRAM BUS voltage of 1.5v (which i manually set per G. SKILL spec) I have put my set up through all of the Prime 95 stress tests with all passes. So my question is: Am i doing the right thing here or should i be doing something else with my timing and if so how?
Thanks in advance from a complete noob.
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