RAM Bios Settings

[perrox]

Greetings,
I am needing some advice on what to set my RAM as in my Bios settings. I have 16GB(4 sticks of 4) of Vengeance 1600MHz. As its probably happened to many, my MOBO (Gigabyte 990FX-A) defaulted it to 1333MHz. I manually changed it to 1600MHZ by setting the XMB to Profile 1. I have a 460W power supply but have not noticed any issues what so ever after I made this change but i am worried about long term possible damage. I would really appreciate any feedback on weather I should need to make any additional tweaks regarding Voltage and any other possible settings. Thank you much in advance.

 

[Tradesman1]

What CPU? first thought is regardless of CPU, with 4 sticks and AMD's weak MCs (memory controllers) it often takes an increase to the MC voltage, try taking it up + 0.10, then if no joy, also take the DRAM voltage up 0.05.....let us know what happens and also what your CPU is and the OC if any, then can be a little more precise

 

[perrox]

Thank you for the response. My CPU is AMD FX 6100 at 3.3(no OC), I have not seen any issues this far but my general concern is do I need to be preemptive here and make adjustments now so I don't run into issues in the future. Thanks again.

 

[Tradesman1]

Yep, try the above, think that should stabilize, do both DRAM and CPU/NB voltages

 

[perrox]

Slight problem my Bios is not allowing me to make changes everything is set to Auto without the ability to change it. The DRAM voltage is set to 1.500V and Im not sure where to locate the MC one you mentioned.

 

[Tradesman1]

What mobo? is this a prebuilt?

 

[perrox]

Gigabyte 990FX-A i built it.

 

[Tradesman1]

Should be able to make changes, do you have the latest BIOS?

 

[perrox]

Yup have the newest one. It's kinda weird I can change most thing but not those specific ones.

 

[Tradesman1]

Hopefully someone will chime in, haven't run into not being able to change things like that

 

[perrox]

i did find this: http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php?topic=11957.0
not sure what you could make of it?