Corsair Vengeance Overclock

HMS-ratters · Nov 1, 2013

I have 16Gb(2x8) CL10 1600mhz ram and I'd like to know weather I should overclock it. I've already put it up to 1866 as I've read vengeance is good to overclock with and it seems to be running fine, I haven't touched the timings though. What I'd like to know is can anyone tell me what sort of timings I should be using (as advanced as possible please) or the best setting for his ram, much thanks

Novuake · Nov 1, 2013

Did you stresstest the RAM before declaring it stable?

Anyway. There usually is not much point to overclocking RAM these days unless you have an AMD APU or use VERY memory intense applications.

HMS-ratters · Nov 1, 2013

Right well after running memtest for a few minutes I got errors so I've put it back to stock and it's still giving me error after error :/

Novuake · Nov 1, 2013

That is quite strange. Check that you are running the RAM in XMP profile in the BIOS, reseat the RAM.

HMS-ratters · Nov 1, 2013

will do although I don't think amd supports xmp

Novuake · Nov 1, 2013

Ah you didnt mention a system.

See now its in your signature.

Right AMD is not a system that is very high speed AND high amount of RAM friendly.
So try and just reseat, then start lowering to 1333MHz as a test to find stability.

Then try each one of the 2 chips individually.

What motherboard do you have?

HMS-ratters · Nov 1, 2013

Right, I've re-seated, relaxed one of the timings and stuck to 1600mhz and memtest has gone longer than it has before without errors, i'll just wait and see how it goes for an hour or so

HMS-ratters · Nov 1, 2013

damn it still errors, it wouldn't be that I have a cpu/nb oc would it?

Novuake · Nov 1, 2013

You have a north bridge OC? LOL yes tat is part of it.

HMS-ratters · Nov 1, 2013

Thought so ahaa, was going to say there must be something odd because my ram shouldn't have to go below stock

Novuake · Nov 1, 2013

HMS-ratters :

Well once again. its possible but you still have not said what mobo you have.

HMS-ratters · Nov 1, 2013

Ok I have a gigabyte GA-970A-DS3 NB@2400Mhz from stock 2000Mhz

Novuake · Nov 1, 2013

Drop everything to stock and start increasing to find where stability is lost.

Also you should be using the multiplyer to overclock. Not the BUS speed.

HMS-ratters · Nov 1, 2013

If by bus speed you mean FSB I've not touched it, I've only ever used multis, i'll drop the nb to stock and see where that takes me

Novuake · Nov 1, 2013

HMS-ratters :

North bridge is bus speed.

Multiplyer is not a problem. Well should not be.

HMS-ratters · Nov 1, 2013

memtest started, awaiting results

HMS-ratters · Nov 1, 2013

Ok after a rough hour of testing no problems at 1600 9-9-9-24, so back to the original question

Novuake · Nov 1, 2013

Like I said, very little reason to overclock RAM.

almost no benefit, but still the risk.

HMS-ratters · Nov 1, 2013

Ok, still can't say I'm not tempted but I'll take your word for it, at least my system is stable now which I guess means I have better performance than before haha, thanks

Novuake · Nov 1, 2013

No problem. Didn't feel like i helped much.

ElectroEvolution · Sep 3, 2014

Lol that was cute

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