camaro_dude15 Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 i bought some ocz ram from hornybluecow, and its supposed to run at 1600 speeds, but cpuz is showing 535.8, isnt it supposed to show about half, like 800, i dont know what to do, this computer was my first build, and this ram is my first upgrade other than little stuff and video cards, and video cards were easy lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black64 Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 How many sicks do have installed? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
camaro_dude15 Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 4 sticks 8gb total Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black64 Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 (edited) (I think this is right please correct me if I am wrong.) So 1600 divided by 4 is 400 and if you are OCing 535.8 is right. My specs are 1333 ram (2 sticks though) are each running at 750, so 1500 total speed. My ram is OCed ram speed is always divided by the number of sticks you have. Edited March 11, 2011 by Black6464 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
camaro_dude15 Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 oh well i didnt mean to oc anything, i just stuck em in and fired it up, is that bad? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black64 Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 Check your bios and see what speed they are running at. Also is your CPU OCed using the fsb multiplier because that does raise ram speed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted March 11, 2011 Posted March 11, 2011 did you set it to 1600mhz manually in the bios?? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
camaro_dude15 Posted March 12, 2011 Posted March 12, 2011 my cpu is overclocked using the multiplier, and i didnt change any settings for ram Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black64 Posted March 12, 2011 Posted March 12, 2011 Are you sure you OCed with the CPU multiplier and not the fsb multiplier. Both will work for the CPU but the fsb will raise the ram speeds. If you are sure you raised only the CPU muiltiper then i don't know Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boinker Posted March 12, 2011 Posted March 12, 2011 (I think this is right please correct me if I am wrong.) So 1600 divided by 4 is 400 and if you are OCing 535.8 is right. My specs are 1333 ram (2 sticks though) are each running at 750, so 1500 total speed. My ram is OCed ram speed is always divided by the number of sticks you have. DDR3 Stands for "Dual Data Rate third generation" It pulses data on the up and down cycle I belive so being dual data rate the actual clock is 800 if its 1600Mhz memory. Only CPU-z will put it too you that way. If you are OC'ed using Just the CPU multiplier then your overclock will not effect the memory at all. if your actual clock is 533 then whats happened here is your memory has defaulted back to 1066 due to the Bios seeing new hardware. You just need to set the memory up in the Bios and then you should be fine (1600mhz isn't that big of a jump). Set the bios to DDR3 1600, set you timings 9-9-9-24. Voltage to what the factory wants it and see if it boots. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
camaro_dude15 Posted March 12, 2011 Posted March 12, 2011 dont i have to glue pieces of copper to em first, lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
camaro_dude15 Posted March 12, 2011 Posted March 12, 2011 (edited) the most i could get out of it was 669.7 in cpuz and my timings are 7-7-7-30, thats how it already was should i change it to 9-9-9-24, if i tried to put it to the full 800 mhz, but it would give me a post code then my dual bios thing poped up and basically yelled at me for overclocking ok that was scary i was getting extreme system instablities, i dont know what i did, i put it all back the way it was, till i figure out whats going on i just got the memory, i dont want to break'em Edited March 12, 2011 by camaro_dude15 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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