dd717 Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Hello, I just purchased your Corsair XMS TWINX2048-3200C2PT 2GB memory. From what I have learned I will have to edit my BIOS to reflect the Ram as soon as it arrives. Can you tell me how I should do that like the reference in the letter I found below. Also when the machine boots for the first time I only plan on using the above mentioned Corsair Dual Channel Kit, but plan to buy an identical kit as soon as I am able. In the meantime I will have 2 empty slots on board that I would like to use with some slower DDR ram(2 X Patriut PSD1G333) because I think it may help when I start to do some Video editing. Will adding this extra older Ram for my video editing jobs affect the BIOS settings I am hoping to receive from you, or will it just be a temporary slowdown until I can purchase another Dual Channel set that is identical to my XMS TWINX2048-3200C2PT. Thank you very much. Danny Informative Letter I found: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To get your Ram to run properly try this. Contact Corsair and get the Bios speed settings for your memory. CAS, latency etc. I could not even get my board to run until I had these settings correct. Do not use the AUTO setting. I actually thought I had bad memory and stabbed some cheaper memory in. When I contacted corsair they told me because of the low latency of my Ram that I needed to SET THE BIOS. Not only did this correct my problem, the performance was quite drastic. The RAM GUY from Corsair told me running the bios in AUTO was a waste of good memory. He promptly emailed me the proper settings for my ram and since I am a system builder for gaming machines, has done so for all the the current systems I have built. It is recommended to use the BLUE Dimm slots first when using Dual Channel Memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 It's never recommended to mix memory of different manufacturers, or of different part #s / version #s / lot #s. As for the BIOS settings, they should be on the label itself. If not, it's 2-3-3-6 @ 2.75v (don't go above 2.90 volts). No guarantees when mixing of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dd717 Posted September 7, 2009 Author Share Posted September 7, 2009 Best Plan just buy another 2GB Kit. Just Did Thanks for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted September 18, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted September 18, 2009 NP and with 2 sets of these modules you may have to set them to DDR333 at Cas 2.5-3-3-7 at 2.75 Volts to keep the system stable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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