New Ram timings and speed wrong

[milo]

Hi guys havnt posted in a while but i bought some corsair (3x4gb) xms3 2000MHz 9-10-9-27 latency ram and i installed it on my Gigabyte x58A-ud5 mobo.

Anyway cpuid reads - dram 539.8Mhz

- 7-7-7-20 lat

So my question is should i leave it as that or go back to bios and try other settings?

 

[BKCXb]

If it says that on the "Memory" tab , yes go in the bios and try to manually set timming

try whatever timings and voltage it says on the "SPD" tab for 1000MHz

 

[milo]

What would be your recommendation on what setting i should change? As in specifics? Thanks heaps

 

[BKCXb]

should have a setting in there called something like "DRAM Settings"

sometines you just have a muliplyer in the CPU section, with a dropdown of different frequencies

I'll have to download your manual to get specific, might take me a bit

 

[BKCXb]

First - under 'Advanced Frequency Settings" , see if "Extreme Memory Profile(X.M.P) is "Enabled" , if it isn't try to enable it and reboot.

 

[milo]

awsome, ill try it and get back to you!

 

[milo]

I messed around for a bit but its either disabled or prodile1 and profile1 i assume requires you to change the loswer stuff too, i attached a picture of it

 

[Vicey]

Turn the Extreme Memory Profile on and it should read the settings from the memory and apply them. That is what XMP is

 

[milo]

when i switch xmp to profile1 i assume i have to set the lower timings becuase it doesnt say anywhere else what the new timings are? but i dont know what would be better lower lat and higher speed or higher lat and lower speed, also how do i set the speed then?

 

[Vicey]

It should set the Timings, Voltage and Speed if the XMP on the memory is correct. If not you can set them yourself manually. Have you tried doing that?

 

[milo]

umm if you have a look one the picture can you tell me what "channel A timming settings" and "channel A turnaround settings" are becuase when i change it to profile1 those dont change?

 

[Vicey]

Well in your BIOS you're able to alter the timings and turnaround of each individual channel. On X58 you have three channels.

The timings are basically the latency of how long it takes the memory to respond to a command. And the turnaround timings are how long it takes to return to a state of receiving new commands.

You say your timings are supposed to be 9-10-9-27 that would be:

tCL: 9​

[font=Verdana, Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica]tRCD: 10 [/font]​

[font=Verdana, Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica]tRP: 9 [/font]​

[font=Verdana, Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica]tRAS: 27[/font]​

[font=Verdana, Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica]Look inside your channel timings for those options and change them to those numbers. Leave the rest as-is. You'll need to set these timings three times, once for each channel.[/font]​

[font=Verdana, Arial, sans-serif, Helvetica]Also keep in mind that sometimes when loading an XMP profile the BIOS won't reflect what changes that XMP profile contained inside its own settings. It will sometimes deactivate the timings menu itself and just say XMP has been enabled. This is annoying and I've not seen this on recent boards but can still happen. So after loading the XMP profile try booting to Windows and see what Aida or CPUz sees.[/font]​

 

[BKCXb]

Sorry I had to go to bed(work in the morning), sometimes you have to enable it and boot for the changes to show up.

but it's fine now, Vicey can help you better than I can anyway.

I was homeless when the X58 platform came out, so I'm not very clued up about them.

 

[8 Pack]

Thiose are PSC based IC's on that memory mate. It will work tighter than XMp timings at rated frequency. They fly those DIMMS do!!!! 7-8-7-28-1T at 2000 + is easy.

 

[milo]

hahaha well i kinda stuffed something up it wont even boot to bios, thats the reason for the late reply. im not sure what to do now? clear cmos i guess?

 

[milo]

im very sure i set the right setting could this be that my mobo cannot support 2000mhz? becuase when i changed it to profile1 it changes all the hard stuff for me, it was running before on 1033 7-7-7-20 hahaha huge wast of the ram. do i need to mess with the BLCK clock as well could that be the issue?or the volatge its at 1.6 what its rated for?

 

[Vicey]

Yes clear the CMOS. I would highly recommend you consult Corsairs support forums for this as this is pretty much all they do over there, answer questions about RAM. You'll get great support from them on how to get your RAM working at the advertised speeds on your specific motherboard.

 

[milo]

ahaha sweet yeah i think i might i messed with it for a while searching on google what everythying was hahah but yeah i gota get to work now but ill probably call them after, cheers for your help i get back to you when it done.

oh and BKCXb thank you too and im glad your not homeless anymore

 

[BKCXb]

Vicey do you know if the x58 is like older platforms or closer to SB??

My 775 machine won't jump straight to DDR-800 I need a 4.2GHz overclock with a 4 to 5 memery ratio or no overclock at all with a 1 to 1 ratio which sucks pretty bad in bench marks??

Milo I was gonna say if it's closer to my older machine you might not get straight to 2000MHz, you might try clearing your CMOS and doing the timings and voltage manually for what your sticks are rated for at 2000MHz, and take them up one standard speed at a time 1066, 1333, 1600, 1866, etc..

this is the best way if you don't have a lock free BIOS, if you type in you want 2000MHz on yor memory, and that requires an overclock higher than your CPU can handle, your BIOS will be smart enough to try, though it will fail....

If you get to 1333 and you get it to boot run it a while and see if its stable, check and see if your CPU is overclocked or not.... it's all about little steps man, don't just jump in and expect 2 GHz on your memory for just the price of paying for them , you gotta work alittle for it, and we are here to help.....

also don't rule out a bad stick, it happens all the time.... what you will have to do is test each stick one at a time, if this is the case.....

if you got it working nevermind what I said, if not give it a try, i'm sure thats what corsair is gonna tell you anyway.

 

[Vicey]

It's closer to Sandy Bridge. In the Gigabyte BIOS he'll be able to select the RAM speed. In my UD5 it offered like 1066, 1333, 1600 and so forth. It will use a divider or what-not to run it at those speeds. If you do chance the BCLK (from 133MHz) to something else then those speeds will also adjust accordingly similar to how they do on Sandy Bridge when you change from the default 100MHz BCLK.