F2A55-M LK Plus 1866 Memory

[lazyboy947]

Recently built a apu build for my friend with the asus f2a55-m lk fm2 motherboard with native support for 1866 ram without an OC. Got an A10-5800k along with 8gb 2x4gb 1866 RAM and it powered up fine, but the ram defaulted to 1333, and first attempt to 1866 it reset with an overclock failure.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131885 - motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820313205 - Ram

Used an raidmax 500watt psu that i was using until i got my gs700, well it ran my pc without xfire and an small overclock, since he wasnt going to oc the cpu and was not using a discrete gpu i assumed it'd work just fine, which is great it produces almost no heat compared to the warm heat it produced in my system, so i kinda didnt think it was the psu, so i was thinking it was the ram timings or something but the motherboard supports 1866 without an overclock, then fails to boot with the ram in 1866. Anyone have any help? i posted this before i think in the overclocking section with no replies so hopefully here i can maybe get some help.

 

[T_T]

Does the system boot up when the RAM isn't set to 1866?

 

[lazyboy947]

yes it boots when not at 1866, i didnt attempt to set to 1600 as my friend was determined to play minecraft lol but it works fine and has been working at 1333 with no prob

 

[T_T]

This setting: 2x8GB at 1866MHz with 10-10-10-27 1T timings and 1.60V
was used by the techs at this site: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/2106/2/

Although the mobo is different, I imagine you can anticipate similar results; with a degree of fluctuation, of course.

 

[lazyboy947]

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