For some days I've spent hours trying to get the max stable OC I can, after downsizing from 12 to 6GB to get more memory speed, since I propbably don't need all that capacity. But I didn't seem to be able to get too much stability and I charted my changes and results to get some clue on which changes were best. I'd go from doing BIOS settings to Windows 7 mem test at the boot menu, and back to the BIOS, making note of settings & results. But the standard Win 7 tests would often crap out.
Long story short, apparently when I removed the three chips spmething was left a bit off. I swapped the ones I had left with the ones I had removed, made sure they were seated right, and suddenly it was hard NOT to get stable repeatable Windows 7 mem test. Wheew!
So now I have a very stable 4020GHz in turbo mode, DDR3-1824 @ 9-9-9-24. It passes the extended mem test, all 2hrs+ of it, during more than half of which it says "I'm 21% done"
what's up with that? Maybe they should have a second % indicator for the 21% done time
. I think it was written by the same programmer who did the progress indicator in the file copy dialog :).
The funny thing is my memory WEI is the same as when I had DDR3-1475, 7.9 that is
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