Gaming/Streaming build

scotty1991 · 15 Jan 2015 at 18:22

1-2-3-4 are empty but 5-6-7-8 are like this
http://puu.sh/eyGg9/c7bd8989ab.png

stulid · 15 Jan 2015 at 18:25

You havent got your RAM in the right slots.

Are you using all the same colour? two slots on either side of the CPU?

Your RAM is also rated to run at 1600MHz, while it is actually now at 1333MHz (666 x 2), this is easily fixed, and probably because you flashed the BIOS and set everything to default.

scotty1991 · 15 Jan 2015 at 18:30

Yeah 2 slots in each side

scotty1991 · 15 Jan 2015 at 18:33

Do i need to switch my memory into other slots or does it matter?

stulid · 15 Jan 2015 at 18:35

Its a feature that apparently you are not using, so its free performance/bandwidth that you can easily obtain by making sure the four RAM sticks are in the right combination of slots.

scotty1991 · 15 Jan 2015 at 18:36

ah right okie i will sort that what about cpu now

stulid · 15 Jan 2015 at 18:41

Sort your RAM out till CPU-Z is telling you it is in quad channel mode and not dual as per your photo.

Then to get the full 1600Mhz speed,

Go there and enable XMP profile (then save/+exit) then hopefully the memory tab is now showing 800Mhz instead of 666.

800MHz x 2 = 1600MHz.

stulid · 15 Jan 2015 at 18:43

I will give you some hints on the CPU once your RAM is fixed.

scotty1991 · 15 Jan 2015 at 19:27

i put them all in the white slots but still 666 what are the best slots to put them in

stulid · 15 Jan 2015 at 19:32

You have to change the RAM speed in the BIOS as per my screen shot.

Is CPU-Z now showing quad?

scotty1991 · 15 Jan 2015 at 19:45

yep it's in quad mode now

stulid · 15 Jan 2015 at 19:46

Thats good, so set the RAM xmp up which will set the correct speed/timings for you and hopefully CPU-Z is then telling you its running at 800Mhz.

Rather get the RAM running right before messing with the CPU.
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scotty1991 · 15 Jan 2015 at 19:53

currently shows 666 still but i guess that changes once i go into bios right

scotty1991 · 15 Jan 2015 at 19:53

ah ye just read ur msg

stulid · 15 Jan 2015 at 19:54

Yes, follow my instructions like I have been saying for the past few posts.

scotty1991 · 16 Jan 2015 at 10:27

Sorry for the late reply i had to go out yesterday i have enabled XMP profile and got 800mhz now

scotty1991 · 16 Jan 2015 at 13:01

So what tips u got for my for my cpu overclock stulid <3 thx for all the help so far aswell

stulid · 16 Jan 2015 at 13:10

I will show some more pics of things to adjust when this afternoon.

scotty1991 · 16 Jan 2015 at 13:12

kk thx

stulid · 16 Jan 2015 at 14:45

Try this and see what happens,

Set both of those to their highest values, extreme and turbo or whatever it is.

I had six as I had a hex core CPU, you will have four, set them each to 40X

Now download say Cinebench R15 and with CPU-Z showing the CPU tab run Cinebench and hopefully the core speed reported jumps upto 4GHz.

What does the Vcore jump up to during this also?

Use Realtemp to monitor the temps of the cores.

For a proper stability test I would recommend downloading ASUS Realbench 2.4 and using the stress test or benchmark run on that.