Show Us Your Rig [4]

Lady Fitzgerald said:

The closest I plan on coming to overclocking is raising my RAM to 1600MHz (which I did before installing the OS).

Wise decision from one who admittedly is not terribly knowledgeable on these things . I have 2400Mhz capable sticks in my Ivy and I run them at 1866Mhz but in all honesty when the machine has defaulted to 1333Mhz at times (Asus feature) I found it really did not make that much difference.

In fact I cannot find any or much evidence for using high clock speeds on the RAM - as an ordinary run of the mill user.

I did a fair bit of research through the G Skill forum before I bought my RAM and that was the general consensus of feeling there and what I base my comments on.

ICit2lol said:

has defaulted to 1333Mhz at times (Asus feature).

Correct me if i'm wrong but doesn't all/ most ram default to 1333Mhz? I thought that was the standard SDP.

That should be correct all ram defaults at 1333mhz but the CPU memory controller like amd can run native 1866 intel I think is 1600 could be wrong but Overclocking Intel Boards do much better and have more memory options

I thought as much Cheers chap. I thought i may have given bad advice in the past lol.
Yeah i've looked at some bios's on intel boards. i thought mine was complicated 2 totally different beasts ent they.

Well you learn something new every day I had no idea that this was the case to be absolutely honest:)


I was just supposing that it was the Asus board. I have not had a board yet that can support over 1333Mhz so that makes it that much clearer now.

Yup learn something new everyday, check my sig

ganjiry said:

ICit2lol said:

has defaulted to 1333Mhz at times (Asus feature).

Correct me if i'm wrong but doesn't all/ most ram default to 1333Mhz? I thought that was the standard SDP.

Ivy Bridge and Bulldozer (AM3+) default to 1600, if at least 1600 ram is installed.

Yes most Ram is 1333. Even when we buy 1600 or whatever it's actually 1333 by JEDEC standard, the merely add the timings to the profile (xmp) and sell it as 1600.

And thanks for the link for the other coolers guys




This is my ram shown in CPU-Z it's 1333 with an 1600 XMP profile.

So I am at work, but have RAM that appears to be clocked at 1333 is there a guide or resource anywhere on what I can do to get this up to 1600?

System isn't in my specs.

here are specs:
Case: Rosewill BLACKHAWK Gaming ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD

CPU: AMD FX-6200 Zambezi 3.8GHz (4.1GHz Turbo)
Heatsink: COOLER MASTER V8 RR-UV8-XBU1-GP 120mm Rifle CPU Cooler

RAM: Patriot Viper 3 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 15000)

GPU: SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 6850 1GB 256-bit GDDR5

PSU: OCZ ModXStream Pro 700W Modular