Do you think it'd be worth sending my H97 motherboard back so that I can get one that allows me to run RAM at 1866 MHz?
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Do you think it'd be worth sending my H97 motherboard back so that I can get one that allows me to run RAM at 1866 MHz?
If it is free and you can afford having no motherboard, then I would say yes. Would mean faster PC plus higher chances to resell in the future.
If it costs anything, I would say leave it.
It's the HyperX fury kit. 1866MHz @ 1.5, but no XMP option. Strange.... Plus, on Scan's website, it doesn't show that it doesn't support XMP, which I thought they all would.
I'd probably have to pay to send mine back.
I can't dial the settings in at all. Gives me a drop down menu and the max setting is 1600 :(
Yeah you should be able to get this to work manually with the motherboards settings. XMP just makes it easier.
It has become standard practice for me to order my RAM directly from Crucial these days, always seems to be cheapest, fastest and of solid quality. Perhaps replace the RAM rather than the motherboard?
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And there is no other settings to do with RAM at all?
Timings, but even if i change them, it causes it to hang at post. EG, changing the settings from 9-9-9-24 to 8-8-8-24
That sounds a bit weird. If you\'re running the most recent BIOS & it\'s still not letting you enter your RAM speed & timings manually, it might be worth changing the RAM. Although in all honesty, you\'d be hard pressed to notice the difference between 1866Mhz & 1600Mhz RAM in normal use. It\'s annoying not to get the speed you\'ve paid for though! I\'ve always found Corsair & Crucial to be the most compatible memory.
According to specs page,max memory speed for the motherboard is 1600? I don\'t see why you can\'t overclock because isn\'t the memory controller on the CPU now
According to the manual for the MSI H97 Gaming 3 motherboard, 1600Mhz is actually the fastest supported speed for RAM, so it would seem that you would need to change your motherboard to a Z97 in order to run the RAM at its full speed. Out of curiosity, why did you go for an H97 board, if you were pairing it with a 4670K processor?
H97 was cheaper and offered overclocking, so I didn't see the point. Assumed XMP would be supported though, as my old motherboard did, and it was cheaper new (H77 chipset)
Oh, I didn't realise H97 supported processor overclocking. Strange that it doesn't support memory overclocking too (unless it's just your MSI board which doesn't). I guess you have three options: change the motherboard, change the RAM, or keep both & run the RAM at 1600Mhz (which might allow you to tighten up the timings, though).
That's what I thought - but it doesn't run 1866 at CL9, but instead CL11, so I think the trade-off isn't going to make a difference.
I'm going to keep it for now, since I've been used to 1333 anyway, and 1866 isn't going to give a massive performance boost.
H80i seems to be inadequate to cool my 4670K @ 4.3GHz with core voltage at 1.25V. It hits 95 during prime 95, that's with the fan set to exhaust (was idling at 42 with intake at the top, now 28).
Tightening the timings is a way to substitute for frequency over clock.
Above 1600Mhz the practical performance increase is rather minimal anyway (so as long you have the highest officially supported RAM speed running, you are all right I would say. Like 1333Mhz for Sand by Bridge, 1600Mhz for everything above).
How about a push-pull setup for cooling? Also do you reach high temps even if you are at Max RPM? (If by any chance the lack of cooling performance is not because of your FAN).
I missed that it was H97 rather than Z97. IIRC, H97 was never intended for enthusiast overclocking but some features were added in by 3rd party manufacturers. I think the real purpose of H97 overclocking was for the Pentium anniversary edition rather than a full replacement for Z97... but I could be wrong. Thats not to say it wont work, it just means the feature set will be inherently more limited than with a proper Z97 board that was purposefully put together with a chipset for overclocking.
The memory controller is on the CPU, however the clock frequencies are tied to baseclock, just like they were in the days of Core 2 with FSB. Again, just like it was in the old days, significant changes to the memory frequency are usually done using a multiplier/divider.