Underclocking memory?
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Any DDR3 ram will work.
Any ram can be put in your system and still means you do not have to worry about your overclock. Ram frequency can be manipulated in your bios with ease. So even with 10666 ram you could over clock your CPU to 4GHz no problem.
I am not sure you understand how these motherboards work with respect to ram. It is like this. The processor chipset determines the base memory rate. So as you have quoted your motherboard has a native 10666 frequency. That just means is your motherboard will run all DDR3 ram at that speed at default settings. You can adjust your ram speed as you see fit. The only thing that will determine the speed you set is the quality of your ram and how good the memory controller of your CPU.
Any ram can be put in your system and still means you do not have to worry about your overclock. Ram frequency can be manipulated in your bios with ease. So even with 10666 ram you could over clock your CPU to 4GHz no problem.
I am not sure you understand how these motherboards work with respect to ram. It is like this. The processor chipset determines the base memory rate. So as you have quoted your motherboard has a native 10666 frequency. That just means is your motherboard will run all DDR3 ram at that speed at default settings. You can adjust your ram speed as you see fit. The only thing that will determine the speed you set is the quality of your ram and how good the memory controller of your CPU.
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sorry for digging up a (slightly) old thread, but this has answered the question i was about to ask as well, so thanks for that
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underclocking timings
Rather then start a new thread. I'll ask a slightly silly question here. Is there a way to make DDR2 ram run more stable with slow timings. The bios has lots and I know only the SPD which Ive put at slowest, the ram isnt exactly recommended for the motherboard Ive realised thats why its not stable.
Any quick way to bodge it to work out better, ive got it working now more or less but hoping I could change one of these other mysterious timings to a much slower value and improve things slightly. Its preventing any cpu overclock
Apologies for the poor question, no doubt I should change the ram or motherboad really. I tried bios update but no help
More volts maybe, not sure whats the max I could try -
Ram is : http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-149-OC&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=817
Rather then start a new thread. I'll ask a slightly silly question here. Is there a way to make DDR2 ram run more stable with slow timings. The bios has lots and I know only the SPD which Ive put at slowest, the ram isnt exactly recommended for the motherboard Ive realised thats why its not stable.
Any quick way to bodge it to work out better, ive got it working now more or less but hoping I could change one of these other mysterious timings to a much slower value and improve things slightly. Its preventing any cpu overclock
Apologies for the poor question, no doubt I should change the ram or motherboad really. I tried bios update but no help
More volts maybe, not sure whats the max I could try -
Ram is : http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-149-OC&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=817
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