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seward · 4 Weeks Ago

Does your motherboard recognize performance/high-speed RAM? On my board (780i), I can set RAM to "SLI-Enabled", which makes the board set timings to tight EPP timings that are pre-programmed into the RAM, for whatever the speed is. Gets rid of the guessing re: optimal timings.

If you can get your board to recognize your RAM as high-performance RAM, you should set it to that; this will put your RAM timings at tight EPP timings (which you can then enter manually if you want) for whatever your RAM speed is. I would then set RAM ratio to 1:1, which shouldn't raise it too far above 800mhz. 4 sticks of RAM @800mhz (or so), with EPP timings, will probably run better than 2 sticks @1066 with EPP timings (which will be looser than the 800 mhz timings).

I hope that's not too confusing. I looked for your board's BIOS, but couldn't find it, so I don't know if it will recognize "performance RAM".

esocid · 4 Weeks Ago

It's under DRAM settings. The Asus boards should have the same bios - Phoenix.

Look for CL, tRCD, tRP, tRAS, and CMD. CMD you can set to auto, most likely will run at 2T.
The first 4 will be listed sequentially, so you don't really need to search for each one. Don't mess with the other ones.

UndertheGun · 4 Weeks Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by seward

Does your motherboard recognize performance/high-speed RAM? On my board (780i), I can set RAM to "SLI-Enabled", which makes the board set timings to tight EPP timings that are pre-programmed into the RAM, for whatever the speed is. Gets rid of the guessing re: optimal timings.

If you can get your board to recognize your RAM as high-performance RAM, you should set it to that; this will put your RAM timings at tight EPP timings (which you can then enter manually if you want) for whatever your RAM speed is. I would then set RAM ratio to 1:1, which shouldn't raise it to far above 800mhz. 4 sticks of RAM @800mhz (or so), with EPP timings, will probably run better than 2 sticks @1066 with EPP timings (which will be looser than the 800 mhz timings.

I hope that's not too confusing. I looked for your board's BIOS, but couldn't find it, so I don't know if it will recognize "performance RAM".

I think you are insane!

Snap_shot · 4 Weeks Ago

Ok I set the settings for 4-4-4-12 (these are good and fast?) and put the voltage on 2.1 and it was red so Idk.

Snap_shot · 4 Weeks Ago

How do I install this memtest thing? http://www.memtest.org/

hermitmaster · 4 Weeks Ago

You don't, it runs from a bootable cd or usb drive. Burn the iso to a cd, leave it in your drive, and restart you PC (assuming you cd drive is the first boot device).

Snap_shot · 4 Weeks Ago

I'm a dumbass, thanks bro.

hermitmaster · 4 Weeks Ago

You're welcome.

seward · 4 Weeks Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by seward

Does your motherboard recognize performance/high-speed RAM? On my board (780i), I can set RAM to "SLI-Enabled", which makes the board set timings to tight EPP timings that are pre-programmed into the RAM, for whatever the speed is. Gets rid of the guessing re: optimal timings.

If you can get your board to recognize your RAM as high-performance RAM, you should set it to that; this will put your RAM timings at tight EPP timings (which you can then enter manually if you want) for whatever your RAM speed is. I would then set RAM ratio to 1:1, which shouldn't raise it too far above 800mhz. 4 sticks of RAM @800mhz (or so), with EPP timings, will probably run better than 2 sticks @1066 with EPP timings (which will be looser than the 800 mhz timings).

I hope that's not too confusing. I looked for your board's BIOS, but couldn't find it, so I don't know if it will recognize "performance RAM".

Quote:

Originally Posted by UndertheGun

I think you are insane!

But not necessarily wrong.