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Up up the memory voltage by a notch or two(lets say to 1.68v, 1.7v, 1.73v - dont worry, it wont hurt your ram) and try again, its possible that the mobo doesnt provide full 1.65v to the modules causing instability at said speed.

As for bios settings, heres Windwithme`s review of your mobo with BIOS pictures showing where timings are set etc. - http://forums.tweaktown.com/f19/wi [...] ded-32626/

To start with, I take my suggestion about increasing the ram voltage back(explained later)

Yes, you can safely use whatever your mobo sets the ram to, its probably the best thing to do anyway. Try installing w7 with those settings, if unsuccessful download memtest and test your ram.

Speed vs timings: read this - http://www.thetechrepository.com/showthread.php?t=160 it will give you an idea how those things relate to each other and ram`s overall performance.

Max voltage - i cant really tell you, since theres a bit of confusion around this. According to JEDEC documens regarding ddr3 standard, the minimum/default voltage is 1.5v while modules having to withstand 1.975v before any permanent damage is caused. The problem comes with i7 cpus, with intel claiming that continous use of memory that requires more than 1.65v may damage the cpu permanently(since the memory controller is integrated into cpu).

But I guess the bottom line is - your ram shoud run at 1600 with specified timings at 1.65v, thats what you paid for.

So i suggest this: set the voltage, timings to those printed on the modules/packaging but set the speed lower than 1600. If it works fine than you have two options: keep it and run it at lower speed(and you wont see much difference anyway) or RMA it as it does not work with advertised values.

As for the i7 1.65v issue - like I said earlier theres a fair bit of confusion surrounding it, since Intel says "run over 1.65v on your own risk" but I would have upped the voltage purely to see if it helps. I dont care that much for the gear Im using, thats why I take risks and exceed specifications. But I shouldnt have suggested it to you or anybody, my bad on that.

534 Mhz huh? Thats an odd one...

DDR = Double Data Rate, so you typically need to multiply by 2 to get the listed speed on the memory modules (EG: DDR2 800 runs at 400Mhz x 2 = 800MHz). So according the CPU-Z, you're only running slightly above 1066MHz...Unless a tri-channel config means you need to multiply by 3 instead, but even then, you get 1600MHz instead of 1333MHz you set it to...

Good timings though; I run 7-7-7-26, and you're getting 7-7-7-16, which is quite aggressive for DDR3...

If you're stable, either RMA the RAM, or leave it as is.

I find that odd then if he set the RAM to 1333 in the BIOS...Check your settings again, just to make sure the RAM is running at the right speed.