Upgrading RAM etc & overclock settings

[HummuH1]

Morning,

I'm thinking of adding some more RAM, adding a new HDD and also looking to update BIOS. I bought a pre-overclocked system as per spec in sig.

1. If I add new RAM, will the RAM overclock settings aitomatically be applied to slots 2 & 4 or will I need to manually apply? If so, can I simply use the current slot 1 & 3 timings/freq?

2. When updating BIOS, do overclock settings get wiped? If they do (I've never overclocked myself), can I take a note of my current stable settings and simply re-apply?

Thanks for your help.

 

[V|per]

If you add some more ram, or even replace the existing ram, they will retain the clock settings already in the bios. They will only need re-setting up if you personally change the bios.

If you do update the bios, i reccomend resetting everything to defaults first anyway. Also, update the bios in dos, sooo many people have issues when updating through windows, and this can generally mean a new board/bios if it goes wrong. Also, reset the bios after it's been updated too, i do this out of good practice, shouldn't really do anything, but it seems to fix quite a few pepoles issues when flashing the bios.

Taking note of the settings before the bios is flashed and then re-setting them up after it's been flashed shouldn't cause any issues, adn should have the pc running as it was before, although somethimes certain bios fixes may require a little more tweaking rather than just setting everything back to the way it was, just something to take note of if everything isn't working quite as it was...

 

[HummuH1]

Thanks.

Noob question coming, is there an easy way to reset to default settings if I don't know what the default settings are?

Also, if I'm not experiencing any issues, is it worth updating the BIOS?

Tar much.