BIOS setting RAM at different voltage

kiwifm

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Nov 28, 2013
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Hi! I was looking in BIOS and noticed that my RAM (which is 4 x sticks of 1.65v) is running at 1.548V. I didn't change anything - except for adding 2 x sticks of extra RAM which matched the original 2. The BIOS is also set to TURBO . The machine is from a tech company and is a gaming machine. I don't use it for gaming but for visual effects and motion graphics. I was worried about the incorrect voltage settings particularly!

I also looked in the MIT and the BIOS is F2 - it's up to F9 on the motherboard website.
I'd be grateful for any opinions thank you very much!

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Solution
Well they are running at 1333 (true freq in memory tab of 665 x 2 = 1330 (appr), so will want to manually set the freq to 1600, DRAM voltage to 1.65, base timings to 9-9-9-27 and you should be running 1600 - will show 800 in the freq pane of the memory tab - if no joy with those settings may have to raise the MC (memory controller) voltage a bit

kiwifm

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Hi thank you for replying.

Here's the MEMORY and SDP tabs. I should say that while testing my RAM in memtest, I also noticed variations - the 2 original RAM sticks that came with the system were 9-9-9-24, while the 2 x new ones I bought memtest read them as 11-11-11-28. I bought the extra RAM from the same shop and are the same voltage/make.
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Tradesman1

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Well they are running at 1333 (true freq in memory tab of 665 x 2 = 1330 (appr), so will want to manually set the freq to 1600, DRAM voltage to 1.65, base timings to 9-9-9-27 and you should be running 1600 - will show 800 in the freq pane of the memory tab - if no joy with those settings may have to raise the MC (memory controller) voltage a bit
 
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kiwifm

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.....The BIOS won't allow me to make changes to the DRAM/timings etc. I wonder if it's because the XMP is disabled - I just noticed that in the BIOS. (I'm sure when I ran memtest that my RAM had *xmp* in the description, I need to check).

I also checked the BIOS on the mobo website and noted that the latest BIOS update is for (rev 1.0) of the motherboard, so I'm a bit nervous to update that (am noobie, I just want to be able to learn and do this stuff for myself where I can).

So, I've enabled xmp in the meantime and am I reading this correctly, it's set the timings etc for me as follows?:

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but the core speed has gone up from 1596 MHz to over 3000 MHz! That seems like a massive jump, scarey.



 

Tradesman1

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You're at 1600 on the DRAM, so that's good, and your CPU, by default is set for 3.3 (3300) so you are fine, the CPU has built in turbo-boost allowing it to go up to 3.7 automatically if needed), currently the default multiplier is from 16-37 to let it run as needed, can drop to 1600 if completely idle - (seldom to never) or boost up to 3700