Ram problems.

Eureka · 25 Sep 2010 at 19:49

Hey, i´m pretty new to this, so i´m just gonna ask straight away...

I just bought An Asus Rampage Extreme and Corsair CMT6GX3M3A1866C9

But they only run at 1066Mhz with 8-8-8-20 timings in bios, could someone explain to me the easiest way to atleast get them up to 1600Mhz ?
Just wanna be sure i don´t blow anything up fiddling in the bios

1Day · 25 Sep 2010 at 19:54

You could simply enable the XMP profile. Most of the time that will work.

If it is not possible with the CPU you are using to enable the XMP profile then your board will simply reset. Not biggie.

If you have a problem just post here and we can try and work it out. I do have the X48 socket 775 board in the cupboard some place and can pull it out if needed.

Eureka · 25 Sep 2010 at 20:13

Hmm... It seems i forgot to type III

I have An Asus Rampage III Extreme

I just tried to enable XMP it didnt work, says i failed to overclock, and then i changed everything to default again, I also got An Intel i7 950 running at stock speed.

Eureka · 26 Sep 2010 at 18:45

1Day · 26 Sep 2010 at 19:03

Sorry not sure how I missed your reply.

We have been having a bit of fun with the Rampage Extreme III and the 950 over here by the way.

LINK

The first thing you will need to do is tell me what your cooling is. Basically you can do some pretty insane things with CPU's if you keep them cool.

But if all you want to do is increase your ram speed then it is easy enough.

Go into the bios and on the first screen (the one that opens) you will be given a option to change your ram frequency. Currently it will be on auto. Just select that and I am pretty sure one of the options will be close to 1600MHz.

And that is pretty much that.

The area I marked with the black oval thing - just select the frequency you want there. 1600 will not stress your system too much I do not think.

ishoeyi · 26 Sep 2010 at 22:01

remember to set voltage of the ram after changing to 1600mhz

also change the timing to auto or to its specific value

Eureka · 26 Sep 2010 at 23:49

Thanks a lot for the replies, currently i´m just using the stock cooler, but i ordered the Noctua D14, and i should have it in like 2 weeks, yes i know its a long time, but thats the way it is when you live in the Faroe Islands

Anyway can i just switch the frequency to 1600mhz and set the voltage to 1.65 and i should work ?

1Day · 27 Sep 2010 at 10:20

Yeah that should work just fine - you can check what the voltages should be for the frequency by looking at the SPD. CPU-z has that information.

Eureka · 27 Sep 2010 at 18:07

Oki, i just updated the Bios to 1005 and made those changes to Ram, seems like they run at bit faster, but PC Probe II is running completely bezerk, not sure if its the bios update or that i made the changes with Ram, anyway here are all the errors its reporting:

[09-25-2010 at 05:38 pm] CPU PLL Voltage Abnormal, 0.00 V
[09-25-2010 at 05:38 pm] CPU PLL Voltage become normal, 1.81 V
[09-25-2010 at 05:38 pm] IOH Voltage Abnormal, 0.00 V
[09-25-2010 at 05:39 pm] IOH Voltage become normal, 1.16 V
[09-25-2010 at 05:39 pm] CPU Fan Abnormal, 0 RPM
[09-25-2010 at 05:39 pm] DRAM Bus Voltage Abnormal, 0.23 V
[09-25-2010 at 05:39 pm] CPU Fan become normal, 2156 RPM
[09-25-2010 at 05:39 pm] DRAM Bus Voltage become normal, 1.51 V
[09-25-2010 at 05:40 pm] CPU Fan Abnormal, 0 RPM
[09-25-2010 at 05:40 pm] CPU Fan become normal, 2165 RPM
[09-25-2010 at 05:41 pm] ICH Voltage Abnormal, 0.00 V
[09-25-2010 at 05:41 pm] ICH Voltage become normal, 1.11 V
[09-25-2010 at 05:41 pm] CPU Voltage Abnormal, 0.00 V
[09-25-2010 at 05:41 pm] CPU Voltage become normal, 0.94 V
[09-25-2010 at 05:41 pm] QPI/DRAM Core Voltage Abnormal, 30.13 V
[09-25-2010 at 05:41 pm] QPI/DRAM Core Voltage become normal, 1.20 V
[09-27-2010 at 05:46 pm] IOH PCIE Voltage Abnormal, 4.07 V
[09-27-2010 at 05:47 pm] IOH PCIE Voltage become normal, 1.51 V
[09-27-2010 at 05:47 pm] CPU Fan Abnormal, 110 RPM
[09-27-2010 at 05:47 pm] CPU Fan become normal, 2156 RPM
[09-27-2010 at 05:48 pm] ICH Voltage Abnormal, 58.46 V
[09-27-2010 at 05:48 pm] ICH Voltage become normal, 1.11 V
[09-27-2010 at 05:49 pm] CPU Fan Abnormal, 0 RPM
[09-27-2010 at 05:49 pm] CPU Temperature Abnormal, 65 degrees centigrade
[09-27-2010 at 05:49 pm] CPU Fan become normal, 2154 RPM
[09-27-2010 at 05:49 pm] QPI/DRAM Core Voltage Abnormal, 0.00 V
[09-27-2010 at 05:49 pm] CPU Temperature become normal, 64 degrees centigrade
[09-27-2010 at 05:49 pm] QPI/DRAM Core Voltage become normal, 1.18 V
[09-27-2010 at 05:49 pm] CPU Temperature Abnormal, 68 degrees centigrade
[09-27-2010 at 05:49 pm] CPU Temperature become normal, 58 degrees centigrade
[09-27-2010 at 05:50 pm] CPU Voltage Abnormal, 2.27 V
[09-27-2010 at 05:50 pm] CPU Voltage become normal, 1.24 V
[09-27-2010 at 05:50 pm] CPU PLL Voltage Abnormal, 0.02 V
[09-27-2010 at 05:54 pm] DRAM Bus Voltage Abnormal, 0.00 V
[09-27-2010 at 05:55 pm] DRAM Bus Voltage become normal, 1.51 V
[09-27-2010 at 05:55 pm] CPU Fan Abnormal, 0 RPM
[09-27-2010 at 05:55 pm] CPU Fan become normal, 2163 RPM
[09-27-2010 at 05:55 pm] CPU Fan Abnormal, 115 RPM
[09-27-2010 at 05:55 pm] CPU Fan become normal, 2160 RPM
[09-27-2010 at 05:55 pm] QPI/DRAM Core Voltage Abnormal, 0.00 V
[09-27-2010 at 05:55 pm] QPI/DRAM Core Voltage become normal, 1.20 V
[09-27-2010 at 05:55 pm] ICH Voltage Abnormal, 0.00 V
[09-27-2010 at 05:55 pm] ICH Voltage become normal, 1.11 V
[09-27-2010 at 05:56 pm] ICH Voltage Abnormal, 0.09 V
[09-27-2010 at 05:56 pm] ICH Voltage become normal, 1.11 V
[09-27-2010 at 05:57 pm] CPU Voltage Abnormal, 0.10 V
[09-27-2010 at 05:57 pm] CPU Voltage become normal, 0.94 V
[09-27-2010 at 05:57 pm] QPI/DRAM Core Voltage Abnormal, 0.00 V
[09-27-2010 at 05:57 pm] QPI/DRAM Core Voltage become normal, 1.20 V

I got some pictures i would like to post, but i don´t have anywhere to post them atm.