OCZ Platinum 1600MHz sticks

dr4g0nf1y · 21 Dec 2009 at 15:48

I'm just asking this now because of another thread I made.

inside cpu-z for some reason these 2 chips are showing a speed of around 560MHz.

This obviously isn't normal. Why would this be. would I have to change the timings or the voltage?

hyperst · 21 Dec 2009 at 16:38

there 1033mhz modules that can overclock to 1600mhz, so yeah you need to set them up manually, if its i5 system your running only way to do it is overclock the cpu base clock in the bios to 160, you could drop your multi down on the cpu to copensate

dr4g0nf1y · 21 Dec 2009 at 16:48

it's actually for an amd 955 and the chips were recommended on here to go with the system I was building but still now I see they were designed specifically for the i's

http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/memory/ocz_ddr3_pc3_12800_platinum_low_voltage_dual_channel

still I should hopefully change the speeds but I thought the 1600MHz was at stock

RJC · 21 Dec 2009 at 17:11

You need to manually adjust like you mention, I needed to this to my i7 setup which uses 1600mhz memory.

dr4g0nf1y · 21 Dec 2009 at 17:20

hmm dang

never touched the ram settings myself before. isn't that on the main advanced setting page for dram?

I mean the system seems fine over than my 30 minutes overclock at 3.8GHz before it crashes.

do you think it'll be fine now?

saying that I to remember my paging file is about 5gb so hopefully the memory should open up from that bottleneck. What else do you think I'll see improved, because other than the start up time I can't see how this 1000MHz of so could improve anything lol

Kribby2006 · 22 Dec 2009 at 13:48

RJC said:
You need to manually adjust like you mention, I needed to this to my i7 setup which uses 1600mhz memory.

Same here

dr4g0nf1y · 23 Dec 2009 at 19:25

what should my timings be?

the website states CL 7-7-7-24 (CAS-TRCD-TRP-TRAS) but bios is saying it's 7-7-7-16-4-27-8-4

should I just leave it as it is?