As a first time poster a quick greeting from New Zealand.
I've had this board a couple of months now and have slowly been upgrading my system. One of those upgrades was my DRAM where I purchased 2 sets of G-Skill Sniper F3-12800CL7D-8GBSR(DDR3-1600 PC3 12800 7-8-7-24-2N 1.6V)
The two kits are sequentially numbered and G-Skill say on their web site they will work on this board (I am aware that Gigabyte does not have it listed on the QVL)
The issue. When I run this ram up in XMP mode in either an 8GB config or a 16GB config - the timings go to 8-8-7-24 instead of 7-8-7-24. When I check the memory in any reporting software like CPU-Z/SiSoft etc...it always shows up as having XMP data of 7-8-7-24 but running as 8-8-7-24.
I can set the timings manually in 8 GB mode to 7-8-7-24 in any combination of sticks in either slots 1 and 3 or 2 and 4, and the timings will hold. If I set the timings manually in 16GB mode the system will not boot to windows until it cycles itself with an OC issue and then sets the memory to 11-11-11-28. If I set the timings manually to 8-8-7-24 in 16GB it boots fine.
I am aware that some other users of this board have had a similar issue with G-Skill Ram but not specifically the same modules as me.
All modules have been tested individually using Memtest for about 8 hours each and with no errors. My system runs just fine on 8-8-7-24 with 16GB on board and is as stable as - right up to 5.25 GHZ.
I have done all the necessary tweaks with voltage etc. with no luck. So really the issue for me is why would RAM that is carrying XMP timings of 7-8-7-24 boot up as 8-8-7-24 when utilising the XMP profile from within this board. Is it a board issue or is it a memory issue. I can't help but think it may be an issue of the board given the XMP profiling issue. I have tried BIOS F4, F8 and running F9C, same problem on all.
Thoughts?
I've had this board a couple of months now and have slowly been upgrading my system. One of those upgrades was my DRAM where I purchased 2 sets of G-Skill Sniper F3-12800CL7D-8GBSR(DDR3-1600 PC3 12800 7-8-7-24-2N 1.6V)
The two kits are sequentially numbered and G-Skill say on their web site they will work on this board (I am aware that Gigabyte does not have it listed on the QVL)
The issue. When I run this ram up in XMP mode in either an 8GB config or a 16GB config - the timings go to 8-8-7-24 instead of 7-8-7-24. When I check the memory in any reporting software like CPU-Z/SiSoft etc...it always shows up as having XMP data of 7-8-7-24 but running as 8-8-7-24.
I can set the timings manually in 8 GB mode to 7-8-7-24 in any combination of sticks in either slots 1 and 3 or 2 and 4, and the timings will hold. If I set the timings manually in 16GB mode the system will not boot to windows until it cycles itself with an OC issue and then sets the memory to 11-11-11-28. If I set the timings manually to 8-8-7-24 in 16GB it boots fine.
I am aware that some other users of this board have had a similar issue with G-Skill Ram but not specifically the same modules as me.
All modules have been tested individually using Memtest for about 8 hours each and with no errors. My system runs just fine on 8-8-7-24 with 16GB on board and is as stable as - right up to 5.25 GHZ.
I have done all the necessary tweaks with voltage etc. with no luck. So really the issue for me is why would RAM that is carrying XMP timings of 7-8-7-24 boot up as 8-8-7-24 when utilising the XMP profile from within this board. Is it a board issue or is it a memory issue. I can't help but think it may be an issue of the board given the XMP profiling issue. I have tried BIOS F4, F8 and running F9C, same problem on all.
Thoughts?
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