- Jan 18, 2014
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Greetings All !
I just purchased and installed the following:
Corsair Vengeance Series 8GB DDR3-1866 (PC3-15000) CL9 Dual Channel Desktop Memory Kit (Two 4GB Memory Modules)
Model: CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9
Now, when researching RAM, I recalled seeing some folks complain that this ram defaults to 1600 instead of 1866... but several folks would say "Oh, just adjust it in your BIOS"... and that did the trick.
However, I'm not exactly sure WHERE in my AMD Bios I'm supposed to find this... and I'm not exactly sure how to know when it's running as 1866 when I'm done?
I saw that my AMD BIOS had an option to "Enable XMP Profile", which I did. The BIOS says the ram's running at 1600.
And GPU-Z shows me the following:
So, I'm thinking that since this shows 800 MHz, that's half of 1600, so that's what the RAM is running as at the moment, right?
(Even though it says Slots 2 and 4, the motherboard manual says to use the blue ones first, which is what I've done. Motherboard is an MSI 970A-G46, if you're curious.)
What's funny is, Windows itself now seems to take 4 times longer to load then when I was running a mismash of 2 sets of 2 GB DIMMS that are a couple of years old... a set of 2 OCZ's and 2 Corsairs. And this is a fresh install of Windows on a brand new SSD drive...which I installed a few days ago. Odd....
Thanks!
-= Dave =-
I just purchased and installed the following:
Corsair Vengeance Series 8GB DDR3-1866 (PC3-15000) CL9 Dual Channel Desktop Memory Kit (Two 4GB Memory Modules)
Model: CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9
Now, when researching RAM, I recalled seeing some folks complain that this ram defaults to 1600 instead of 1866... but several folks would say "Oh, just adjust it in your BIOS"... and that did the trick.
However, I'm not exactly sure WHERE in my AMD Bios I'm supposed to find this... and I'm not exactly sure how to know when it's running as 1866 when I'm done?
I saw that my AMD BIOS had an option to "Enable XMP Profile", which I did. The BIOS says the ram's running at 1600.
And GPU-Z shows me the following:
So, I'm thinking that since this shows 800 MHz, that's half of 1600, so that's what the RAM is running as at the moment, right?
(Even though it says Slots 2 and 4, the motherboard manual says to use the blue ones first, which is what I've done. Motherboard is an MSI 970A-G46, if you're curious.)
What's funny is, Windows itself now seems to take 4 times longer to load then when I was running a mismash of 2 sets of 2 GB DIMMS that are a couple of years old... a set of 2 OCZ's and 2 Corsairs. And this is a fresh install of Windows on a brand new SSD drive...which I installed a few days ago. Odd....
Thanks!
-= Dave =-
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