Gigabyte X58-USB3/DDR3 2000MHz woes

Aruffell

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Got a Gigabyte X58-USB3 and 6Gb Kingston KHX2000c9ad3t1k3/6gx memory and having some problems.

Been toying with the voltages and XMP profiles.

Seems to run on XMP profile 1 which is 1800mhz or so and boots fine with 3 sticks.

As soon as i try XMP profile 2 which is 2002mhz it throws a hissy fit.

The memory is rated at 1.65v so even tried going up to 1.7v for the profile.

QPI voltage is auto set at 1.7v and am using the latest beta BIOS as had no luck with the older BIOS's.

Am now booted into windows at 2002MHz using ONE stick and all seems fine.

Any ideas why 3 sticks isn't playing ball?

Thanks,

Andy
 
Ok, update time.

Been speaking to my friend at Kingston on the phone but still having a bit of difficulty.

He informed me that i should try lowering the QPI voltage to 1.4

I'm just in the process of sending him a link with some shots of the BIOS screen so thought i'd post them up here as someone may have an idea on the problem.

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Hope someone can help as im at my wits end right now.

Thanks,

Andy
 
There's so many reports of issues trying to run RAM at 2000+ MHz, in fact I dont know of any success stories really. RAM being rated that high doesn't seem to be enough - you have to get lucky too. It seems to be a right pain in the bum, and for the minimal performance gain over, say, 1600MHz or even 'stock' 1333MHz, probably not worth worrying too much about.
 
I seen to have been reading the same reports as you on other forums etc...

Just waiting on Marco at Kingston to get back to me with his findings, but it seems 1867MHz may be the wall for now :(

I've seen some sucess stories with OCZ memory, but this does seem like quite a common problem :(

Andy
 
Anyone got any updates to this? Still not running it as it should so wondered if anyone had any ideas?

Thanks,

Andy
 
Aruffell said:
Anyone got any updates to this? Still not running it as it should so wondered if anyone had any ideas?

Thanks,

Andy
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I had problems running kingston at it's rated speed, was 1200mhz on DDR2 a couple years back. Apparently kingston is quite unreliable at operating at it's claimed speeds. I have had first hand experience.

OCUK allowed me to RMA them, got a full refund and went for Corsair RAM, had no problems and never looked back. Maybe worth thinking about. I doubt you will get it to run at 2000Mhz
 
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