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Hi Guys
Haven't posted here in a while but love the experience and help I got last time so I am back.
I recently (yesterday) upgraded my Core2Quad setup and put in an Asus P8 P67 Pro mobo with an i5 2500 3.3gHz CPU. With this I bought 8gb g.skill ddr3-1600 RAM.
Little did I know, and you only see this after reading the manual, that due to the intel cpu design, 2200 ram runs at 2000, 2000 at 1800 and 1800 at 1600. So I was pretty peeved to see that the mobo reports that my maximum bandwidth from my ram is 1333.
So, out of the box, the mobo overclocks the i5 from 3.3gHz to 4.1gHz without a problem but only brings the RAM up to 1334mHz. I tried the default XMP profile that comes with the mobo but this just caused the board to go into its configuration cycle to try and find a safe boot state.
Does any1 have any ideas or experience with this issue? I don't see why I paid extra for 1600 RAM if it is going to run at 1333.
Further info:
1) No I have not updated my bios. It is the rev3 that it comes out with.
2) No I have not manually set any timings or anything.....because I am not sure about them.
3) What I did read in the mobo user docs is that in order to get the vendor specified speed out of the ram I need to over clock.
4) RAM = g.skill f3-12800cl7d-4gbeco ...... 7-8-7-24
Any help/suggestions would be highly appareciated.
Thanx in advance.
Haven't posted here in a while but love the experience and help I got last time so I am back.
I recently (yesterday) upgraded my Core2Quad setup and put in an Asus P8 P67 Pro mobo with an i5 2500 3.3gHz CPU. With this I bought 8gb g.skill ddr3-1600 RAM.
Little did I know, and you only see this after reading the manual, that due to the intel cpu design, 2200 ram runs at 2000, 2000 at 1800 and 1800 at 1600. So I was pretty peeved to see that the mobo reports that my maximum bandwidth from my ram is 1333.
So, out of the box, the mobo overclocks the i5 from 3.3gHz to 4.1gHz without a problem but only brings the RAM up to 1334mHz. I tried the default XMP profile that comes with the mobo but this just caused the board to go into its configuration cycle to try and find a safe boot state.
Does any1 have any ideas or experience with this issue? I don't see why I paid extra for 1600 RAM if it is going to run at 1333.
Further info:
1) No I have not updated my bios. It is the rev3 that it comes out with.
2) No I have not manually set any timings or anything.....because I am not sure about them.
3) What I did read in the mobo user docs is that in order to get the vendor specified speed out of the ram I need to over clock.
4) RAM = g.skill f3-12800cl7d-4gbeco ...... 7-8-7-24
Any help/suggestions would be highly appareciated.
Thanx in advance.