Is there any reason not to buy XMS3?

[Gibbo]

For those who must have certified 1.50v Sandybridge compliant RAM got a nice range of pretty fast stuff coming Thursday this week. Not saying what it is, but shall be announced when it arrives in stock.

 

[zAndy1]

You tease Approx how much for 4GB, hovering over the buy button on the Corsair stuff...

 

[Gibbo]

You tease Approx how much for 4GB, hovering over the buy button on the Corsair stuff...

Not as cheap as corsair stuff, same spec, about £10 more and in all honesty I can't see it beating the Corsair as the Corsair kits can run as low as 1.35v if you get lucky, they are unbeatable.

 

[roadie]

Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinteresting

 

[zAndy1]

Not as cheap as corsair stuff, same spec, about £10 more and in all honesty I can't see it beating the Corsair as the Corsair kits can run as low as 1.35v if you get lucky, they are unbeatable.

Thanks, will get the Corsair stuff then

 

[roadie]

The only reason I can think about for not getting the Corsair is that when using the XMP profile, it will default to 1.65V. Trivial to set it manually though.

 

[hash70]

good ram i used it

 

[V F]

Does XMS3 need those coolers? or help.... or is it only the dominator etc?

From what I have seen it does look classy in peoples computers. Yay or nay?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-000-CS&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=399

 

[Steves1982]

I suppose it depends if you will overclock the ram very much? If not I can't see the point myself.

 

[roadie]

Can anyone answer this quickly? Can XMS3 do 9-9-9-24 1T at 1.5V with Sandy Bridge?

 

[roadie]

Have gone for this RAM over the other options in the end. It and a 2500K are on the way to complement my P67A-GD65.

 

[NathWraith]

Aye the XMS3 is performing excellently with Sandybridge. 1600MHz at 1.40 is our best acheivment so far

 

[dekez]

Christ I only came on here to kill a few minutes and I end up buying ram!!

 

[onelosttiger]

Can anyone answer this quickly? Can XMS3 do 9-9-9-24 1T at 1.5V with Sandy Bridge?

On the ASUS P8P67 I have managed it a couple of times but it resets on reboot. This is an issue with the current BIOS/UEFI though and may be possible on other manufacturers boards

Sorry just noticed that you're using Gigabyte anyway

 

[nataku17]

sorry to kinda hijack this thread but i have the corsair XMS3 stuff and i am new to all the overclocking underclocking thing. i got the Asus p67 pro motherboard is it easy enough to set the ram to run at 1.5v? i have yet to get my computer running to check it myself

 

[Geek.]

sorry to kinda hijack this thread but i have the corsair XMS3 stuff and i am new to all the overclocking underclocking thing. i got the Asus p67 pro motherboard is it easy enough to set the ram to run at 1.5v? i have yet to get my computer running to check it myself

yes!
just go in to the bios and go into the advanced mode
then goto (dram voltage) and change to 1.5 also with the xms3 ram you can lower it to 1.4 if you want

 

[nataku17]

yes!
just go in to the bios and go into the advanced mode
then goto (dram voltage) and change to 1.5 also with the xms3 ram you can lower it to 1.4 if you want

awesome thanks a lot =)

 

[ryu]

i have the xms3, with the msi p67a-c45, whenever i set the ram to 1.5v it just reboots on booting windows, im currently having to run it at 1.6v. do you think this is a bios issue? the mobo shipped with bios 1.2, the latest version is 1.5 on the msi website, and the updates suggest better ram compatability.

 

[Steves1982]

Probably best to update then if the latest version says it may fix your issue.

 

[Fat Dog]

Aye the XMS3 is performing excellently with Sandybridge. 1600MHz at 1.40 is our best acheivment so far

1600 at 1.3V here... Pretty impressive stuff.

Strangely wont overclock at all tho - won't even POST at 1866 using 1.65.

UPDATE: 8 hours p95 stable at rated speeds using 1.26875V. Anyone fancy trying to beat that?!