swapping out OC'ed RAM

[OCD-OC]

Just taken delivery of an 8GB kit of Corsair Vengeance (so it seems is everyone else on the planet )

this 8gb is replacing the 4GB Dominator GT I currently have

moer being betterer for the time being ..

the dominators in the BIOS I have set to 1.61 volts and swapped the multi up to 200

I think I did this (last year, and I have slept since so can't remember) was in an effort to keep my AMD 1090T OCed to 4.00Ghz

So, if I slap in the vengeance without altering the BIOS .. will I fry them ?

should I drop the volts ?

will I lose the CPU OC ?



cheers

 

[CinderzFTW]

When adding in new ram, set the bios back to defaults and adding new ram may result in loosing your overclock!

I would install the new ram, reset the bios to default, log into windows, make sure the pc has taken to the new ram, and overclock again!

It's the safest way of doing things! You don't want to turn on the computer and see the overclock does not like the memory that is installed and your BSOD.

 

[SeraphX]

Just reset the to stock settings for everything on the board, ( Clear cmos )
then tweak away once you have the new ram in, different ram, timings, speeds and voltages won't always work if you don't

 

[OCD-OC]

I can confirm

just resetting the RAM timings & Voltages to AUTO .. resulted in no boot to windows

Resetting the lot and losing the CPU OC (as gut wrenching as that was)

obviously worked,

the BEST news is that once that was done .. I managed to just throw the tested and stable CPU OC settings back into BIOS and it booted fine

and played Crysis 2 DX11 + HIGH RES + ULTRA ... and there was no stuttering or slow loading of levels

Thanks guys, the beat lives again

 

[CinderzFTW]

I can confirm

just resetting the RAM timings & Voltages to AUTO .. resulted in no boot to windows

Resetting the lot and losing the CPU OC (as gut wrenching as that was)

obviously worked,

the BEST news is that once that was done .. I managed to just throw the tested and stable CPU OC settings back into BIOS and it booted fine

and played Crysis 2 DX11 + HIGH RES + ULTRA ... and there was no stuttering or slow loading of levels

Thanks guys, the beat lives again

Glad we could help xD