whats up with my memory?!

[Rimfire]

Hi guys,

I'm new to overclocking but I have managed to get a nice stable oc on my system @3.8ghz, I'm running 12gb of Kingston Hyperx Genesis 1333mhz memory on a GA-X58A-UD3R mobo, and for some reason when I look at the memory timings I'm only getting a frequency of 724 mhz with standard timings of 10-10-10-28?! Its probably because I'm missing something really obvious here, but I've been able to tighten it down to 8-8-8-24.

When I look at my system BIOS my DDR profile is 1.5v but there is no option to change it any higher, dunno if that would have anything to do with it?

Anyway, here is my complete BIOS, see if you can spot anything out of the ordinary....

Processor 930 D0:3.8Ghz HT
RAM 12Gb Kingston Hyperx Genesis 1333Mhz

LOAD LINE CALIBRATION LEVEL 1
CPU VCORE 1.36V
QPI/ VTT 1.335V
CPU PLL CORE 1.86V

PCIE 1.54
QPI PLL VCORE 1.22V
IOH CORE 1.18V
ICH I/O 1.50V
ICH CORE 1.14V

DRAM VOLTAGE 1.660V

CPU CLOCK RATIO 21X
CPU FREQ 3.8GHZ
TURBO OFF
HT ON

QPI CLOCK RATIO 36X
UNCORE CLOCK RATIO X18
PCI EXPRESS FREQ 103
CPU CLOCK DRIVE 800MV
PCI XPRESS CLOCK DRIVE 900MV
PERFOMANCE ENHANCE- STANDARD
XMP DISABLED
SYSTEM MEMORY MULTIPLIER X8
MEMORY FREQ 1066/ 1448

Any help you can offer is always appreciated! Thanks in advance!

 

[Rimfire]

Ahhhh,

Thanks for your help cmndr_andi!

I'm using six sticks so none of my slots are free, I've got an extra fan blowing on them to keep everything cool as I'm running a xfire setup as well, I tried dominators but the heat sinks wouldnt fit under my push pull setup on my megahalem lol!

So are the timings of 8-8-8-24 ok then? whats the difference between running oc'ed at 1442mhz with those timings and running stock at 7-7-7-20 like it was designed to do?

cheers!

 

[Rimfire]

so if I'm overclocking the memory, am I likely to do any damage to the system? Stability is my primary concern as I use this machine for work in photoshop and lightroom a lot. If i reduce the frequency and tighten the timings back down will I notice any particular performance drop compared to slackening the timings and overclocking the frequency if is it neither here nor there? If stability is improved by de-clocking the RAM and tightening the timings down and there is no noticeable performance hit I may as well just do that!

Thanks for your help so far, its been very inciteful!