Ripjaws X Series DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) + ASUS A78M-A mobo + AMD A8-6600K Richland CPU

[ravl13]

Hello,

Here are newegg links to my hardware, in case anyone's curious:

G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series Memory (32 GB - optimized for 1600 mHZ)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-569-_-Product

ASUS A78M-A FM2+ AMD motherboard:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813132080

AMD A8-6600K Richland Quad-Core 3.9GHz CPU:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819113333

Anyway, I'd just like to doublecheck that I'm correctly setting up the RAM settings in my motherboard for this G Skill RAM to work at the optimized speed.

Originally, in the EZ mode BIOS Setup in my motherboard, I had it set like this:



I did verify in the "Advanced Mode" that I properly set the memory frequency to 1600:



When I click the "DRAM Timing Control" button in the above screenshot, I see that pretty much everything is set to "Auto":



However, when I boot up Windows, the CPU-Z program I installed says I have a RAS Precharge of "10", and I think it's supposed to be 9, according to my memory's specifications:



I don't know if 10 or 9 is better, but since I don't see a "10" anywhere in my memory's specifications, I'm assuming "9" is the value I want.

So, here's what I did to try and optimize my memory's performance:

Back in the very first screenshot in this post, I clicked the DOCP dropdown menu, and there was an option called "Profile #1". I think this is some kind of specifications built into the memory and the mobo reads it somehow. I selected the Profile:



In Advanced BIOS mode, we can see that this changed the PRE time to "9", instead of "10":



I verify with CPU-Z the following readings now:



So, is my BIOS now using the best settings for my memory? Should I continue using the "Profile #1" in the DOCP setting selection, or should I go back to disabling it and having everything set to "Auto"? To summarize the changes between using DOCP Profile #1 and not using DOCP, here's the changes summary:



Which one would you use if you were me?

Thank you for taking the time to read through my post, and I appreciate everyone's time spent with helping me!

[GSKILL TECH]

The 9-9-9-24 settings that you manually input is better.

From there you can do some overclocking to gain some extra performance. APUs benefit quite a bit from high speed RAM.

[ravl13]

Cool, thank you!