patriot viper 1600mhz overclockng fail

farmerboy-86 · 1 Sep 2013 at 18:12

hi guys i have patriot viper ram 1600mhz stock trying to clock to 1866mhz as my 8350 supports it but im failing at ever point tried loose timmings as i was advised to but i think i could be going wrong as it is first attempt anyone overclocked these im starting to think there not up to it tbf :confused:

teppic · 1 Sep 2013 at 18:51

Have you increased the voltage? If you loosen the timings it isn't much worth increasing the speed though, what you gain one way you lose another.

farmerboy-86 · 1 Sep 2013 at 18:59

i only losened timings as i cant boot otherwise yeah i put voltage to 1.55v they wont boot at 1866mhz 9-9-9-24 which is standard timmings so i was told to loosen off timings to see if i could boot then try to tighten up after any suggestions?

teppic · 1 Sep 2013 at 20:06

You can raise the voltage to 1.65v and try. Loosening timings often helps get higher speeds but what I mean is that you won't end up gaining anything really.

farmerboy-86 · 1 Sep 2013 at 21:02

so im better off raising voltage on stock timmings to see a gain also will putting ram to 1866mhz gain me much in overall performance my 8350 is a 4.6ghz prime95 and intel stable

teppic · 1 Sep 2013 at 21:14

If you put the RAM voltage to 1.65v you may be able to boot it at 1866MHz, and if you leave it at the same timings you'll get a small increase, but nothing compared to a CPU overclock.

farmerboy-86 · 1 Sep 2013 at 21:35

i just tried 1.65v and still no boot
I think i will leave it at 1600mhz if i wont see a big gain but thankyou for trying
would tightening timings at 1600 help at all?

teppic · 1 Sep 2013 at 21:36

Yup - try tightening them. But don't worry about it, higher RAM speeds have very little impact on anything. 4.6GHz on your CPU is nice though, and might get that up a bit further since you've got watercooling.

farmerboy-86 · 1 Sep 2013 at 21:50

yeah im sure i can go higher clock, but staying here atm because im trying to find a gpu block for my 7970 gigabyte oc edition but as its not reference (well dont think so) i am drawing blank.
i dnt want to overclock cpu more till i have gpu in the loop as its gonna affect temps once gpu and cpu is on loop i will see what im dealing with temp wise then clock from there

i will play with the timings and report bk any idea where to start as im noob in ram clocking only just got my head round cpu clocking lol

teppic · 1 Sep 2013 at 23:00

Ok. Well my 1600MHz RAM has default timings of 10 10 10 27 and I can run it perfectly stable at 9 9 9 27 without any extra voltage. Like yours, I can't get it working at 1866MHz.

wazza300 · 2 Sep 2013 at 00:06

you could get it to work if you really slackened off the timings

maybe 11-11-11-30-2t and 1.55v-1.65v dram,also more cpu imc voltage from stock

farmerboy-86 · 2 Sep 2013 at 13:30

But would I gain at these settings? I will give it a try after work and let u know how I got on

teppic · 2 Sep 2013 at 13:34

If you're at C9, going from C9 to C11 would lose performance.

stulid · 2 Sep 2013 at 13:44

farmerboy-86 said:
But would I gain at these settings? I will give it a try after work and let u know how I got on

To get a gain at those timings of 11-11-11 etc you need to have the RAM at 2133/2400Mhz otherwise your going backwards.

wazza300 · 2 Sep 2013 at 16:17

yes that's true but its agood place to start,then try tightening the timings/adding more dram/imc voltage

farmerboy-86 · 2 Sep 2013 at 16:38

I see your point slacken right off to be able to boot at 1866 then work on getting timmins tighter I thought ram overclocking was simple haven't been overclocking long so still learning

Deus Ex · 3 Sep 2013 at 13:47

Ram seems for the most part, pretty tightly binned.