Corsair Vengeance: How high can it go!?

[Ike_]

Today I was reading an article saying that BF4 ran better at higher RAM speeds so first I found my max speeds which was DDR3-2000 12-12-12-36 but then I went one lower to 1866-10-10-10-30 and got better results so thats my perm overclock

Question #1: is it bad to keep my ram at these speeds while gaming/streaming/recording?

Question#2: how will I know if they start cooking so I can shut my PC down and underclock

Question #3: I read this post saying Intel (I have an i5-3570k) doesnt work well with ram over 1.55v and Im running 1.6v


And last but not least this is the maxMEM results-- postimg.org/image/ecvh8cp11

 

[Supahos]

Those timings wont hurt anything though I've played with my memory @ 1866 with the same timings, I got better results across the boards at 1600 mhz with 8-9-9-26 timings you may find the same thing, this also was stable at 1.5v where my 1866 took 1.55v

 

[Ike_]

Those timings wont hurt anything though I've played with my memory @ 1866 with the same timings, I got better results across the boards at 1600 mhz with 8-9-9-26 timings you may find the same thing, this also was stable at 1.5v where my 1866 took 1.55v

For some reason the settings I have actually have alot better results that the lower timing and frequency in games and maxMEM

 

[Tradesman1]

You should have better results with the 1866/10 than at 2000/12, the CL10 is much tighter than 12 at 2000 so you are performing more actions by the DRAM. 1866 roughly equates, performance wise to just under 2133/11 - so at 2000 you are at a lower freq than 2133 and you have a higher CL than the faster 2133, to be honest 2000/12 I wouldn't even think of running at

 

[Supahos]

Have you tried 9-10-10-30? @1866? And if ya dont mind post some data showing 1866 cl10 being faster than 1600 cl8 thay would indeed be an odd result

 

[Ike_]

Have you tried 9-10-10-30? @1866? And if ya dont mind post some data showing 1866 cl10 being faster than 1600 cl8 thay would indeed be an odd result

this is at 1600 9-9-9-24

this is at 1866 10-10-10-30

 

[Tradesman1]

Much better bandwidth at 1866

 

[Ike_]

Much better bandwidth at 1866

Think its ok to leave it at this overclock?

 

[Tradesman1]

Should be fine as long as stable, if any hiccups, can raise the DRAM voltage a hiar + 0.01 or 0.02 or so and should be fine