tlon Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 Hello Ram Guy! Decided to get on the Windows 7 64-bit wagon (moving from Vista/32) -- I opted to add an additional 4 GB of RAM to my system bringing the total to 8 GB. Would like some advice on memory timings and voltages -- System POSTs fine, and windows seems stable, have not run any burn-in tests, but i've had no end of problems on another system which I am trying to do this on, so I thought I would post pre-emtively. Motherboard seems to come up @5-5-5-18 timing and 1.85v using 'optimal' settings. Can you please advise if I should change this, and if so, based on this 4x configuration, what you would recommend. Thanks much Joel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 Bump up the memory voltage to 2.1v. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlon Posted May 18, 2009 Author Share Posted May 18, 2009 Thanks - can you explain why? I like to build my systems knowledge when I do these things - I understand that Dominator RAM is rated at 2.1v, but why doesnt the SPD specify these timings and voltages (5-5-5-15 vs 5-5-5-18)? A second question - I've seen other threads cautioning with respect to using 4 DIMMs in many systems due to motherboards not being fully qualified to run them at the Dominator clock speeds (1066 Mhz) - am I extrapolating too much from those posts -- are there any concerns here that I should be worried about? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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