3200mhz Memory Overclock

father-ted

father-ted

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Hi,

Total noob at memory o/c, so been following some tutorials on how to o/c my Dark Pro 8PACK 3200mhz 16gb kit.

3600mhz kit was out of stock, so I purchased the 3200.
They run great at 3200, CL14
I can o/c them to 3600, CL16 - can’t seem to get CL14 stable......or do I just need to persevere and keep trying?
Boot into windows fine but get errors on testing.


Thanks
 
father-ted said:
Hi,

Total noob at memory o/c, so been following some tutorials on how to o/c my Dark Pro 8PACK 3200mhz 16gb kit.

3600mhz kit was out of stock, so I purchased the 3200.
They run great at 3200, CL14
I can o/c them to 3600, CL16 - can’t seem to get CL14 stable......or do I just need to persevere and keep trying?
Boot into windows fine but get errors on testing.


Thanks
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Try 3800/16 or 3733/16 if it's not stable, remember when you go above 3600 ram you need to manually set infinity fabric clock so for 3800 ram you would set fclk @1900 and for 3733 ram 1867 fclk.
 
If you want more stability - gear down is a significant setting that needs to be enabled.
Note: PS An odd CL setting is not supported, so CL15 would become CL16 in your bios if Gear down is enabled.
 
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Memtest completed last night with no errors, safe settings.
For some reason though it showed my ram as set at 3600mhz - when in the bios it is set at 3800mhz
Above are the current bios settings, what am I doing wrong or what am I missing please?
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What is the ram showing at in cpuz or hwinfo?
Sometimes the bios can have a couple of different areas to set ram and one might take precedence over another.
 
Hi,
In CPUZ it is showing as 1900mhz DDR - so 3800
Seems strange that Memtest sees it as 3600?

What settings do I need to start tightening, from the safe settings please?
 
father-ted said:
Ok done that and it ran through Memtest ok.
What do I need to tighten next please?

Thanks
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Try with gear down off but if that don't boot or throws errors then just try lowering trfc to 280 then call it job done.

Also it's a good idea to take pics on your phone of all the ram timings in case you update bios in the future as it sometimes doesn't let you reload a saved bios profile after flashing and you have to input them in manually again.
 
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