ram speed slower than what it should be

jimbaw · 27 Jan 2014 at 21:34

hi guys (and girls). I've got 16gb of ram at 1600mhz (2x8gb corsair xms3) and for some reason when I check in my system, the speed is only up to 1300 or so. I have started overclocking my cpu and I was wondering, should I manually set my ram speed to 1600mhz? is it dangerous to do so?
thanks and sorry for the noob question (I like the idea of not having to buy anything anytime soon as I've had a car crash a couple of days ago...)

wazza300 · 27 Jan 2014 at 21:48

Set it to xmp profile

Or manually see speed to 1600mhz and dram v to 1.65v

jimbaw · 27 Jan 2014 at 21:50

wazza300 said:
Set it to xmp profile

Or manually see speed to 1600mhz and dram v to 1.65v

ok I will do thank you. is there any risk with doing so?

wazza300 · 27 Jan 2014 at 22:20

No it simply won't boot,then you can clear cmos and it will reset the BIOS

jimbaw · 27 Jan 2014 at 22:27

wazza300 said:
No it simply won't boot,then you can clear cmos and it will reset the BIOS

ok thank you very much

Lance9394 · 4 Feb 2014 at 04:01

Does resetting the cmos delete my CPU overclock settings that was applied previously?

Threepwood · 4 Feb 2014 at 06:44

Yes. But not any saved settings, so simply save, reset comos then reapply them.

jimbaw · 4 Feb 2014 at 08:32

Threepwood said:
Yes. But not any saved settings, so simply save, reset comos then reapply them.

resetting the cmos deletes everything including saved profiles (at least for me)

wazza300 · 4 Feb 2014 at 11:42

save the settings to usb memory stick,can even save the whole bios inc settings so you can flash bios with the oc if need be

usb mem stick and one of the f keys to take bios screenshots,and the flashing software to backup bios but don't use it to flash bios with

jimbaw · 4 Feb 2014 at 13:06

ok cheers.
also for the past couple of weeks whenever I turn my pc on, it does a weird on-off-on cycle. it does it when I restart as well. everything works fine apart from that. I've taken the ram out and put it back properly but the problem is still there

Lance9394 · 4 Feb 2014 at 16:41

I pressed cmos to clean and started up the bios on mobo, and my profile settings I saved previously was there for me to load up

wazza300 · 4 Feb 2014 at 21:18

jimbaw said:
ok cheers.
also for the past couple of weeks whenever I turn my pc on, it does a weird on-off-on cycle. it does it when I restart as well. everything works fine apart from that. I've taken the ram out and put it back properly but the problem is still there

what board are you using? usually a touch more dram and or imc voltage helps

jimbaw · 4 Feb 2014 at 21:55

wazza300 said:
what board are you using? usually a touch more dram and or imc voltage helps

gigabyte 990fxa ud5.
it only started after I started OCing. I haven't changed anything yet and it stopped doing it(typical). I understand that it's just a memory testing protocol?

wazza300 · 4 Feb 2014 at 21:57

can be but can just need one/two clicks more qpi/vtt voltage and or dram voltage

jimbaw · 5 Feb 2014 at 09:43

UOTE=wazza300;25791224]can be but can just need one/two clicks more qpi/vtt voltage and or dram voltage[/QUOTE]

ok I'll make sure I change it (I'm at 1.5 at the minute). I'll see if it sorts the problem out

jimbaw · 5 Feb 2014 at 16:36

if I up my dram voltage to anything above 1.5 I get a failure to boot :/

wazza300 · 5 Feb 2014 at 21:34

it should run fine,did you try one/two clicks more qpi/vtt? leave dram where it is

jimbaw · 6 Feb 2014 at 09:58

the vtt is locked in the bios for some reason. I can't change it whatever I do