Hi all,
Before I go on and state my problem I'd like to confess that I don't know very much about tweaking so I normally stay away from timing/voltage tweaking menus, however I really need a tweaker's help now.
Here's the deal, I got an ASUS Striker II Extreme motherboard and 8GB of Corsair XMS3 DDR3 Memory (1600/1333, 9-9-9-24) however a recent flashing of the motherboard BIOS cleared the pre-filled settings under the 'Extreme Tweaker' options menu.
My processor is QX9650 3GHz which I normally run @ 3GHz, however after the BIOS update and CMOS-clearing, it says 2.00GHz during POST.
I've been playing around with different values for the 'CPU Multiplier' and found that setting it to '9.0' gets my speed back up to 3.00GHz
I've always had stability issues with memory on this machine, system would freeze regularly. Not sure if this is related to memory but BIOS froze at one point!
I can't even get through Vista 64 installation because after the first part of installation, it attempts to boot into Windows for the first time but just after the green loading bar, it suddenly reboots.
Sometimes it goes a little further until met with a BSOD:
The memory is Corsair TW3X4G1600C9DHX, 1600MHz 9-9-9-24 stated on the packaging but I've been trying to run it at 1333MHz since my motherboard supports up to 1333MHz without overclocking (which I don't know how to do).
Not sure if the motherboard is doing a good job of recognizing the right values for the timings since it selects 7-7-7-20 1T whereas I'm expecting 9-9-9-24 2T (?).
Voltages are also set to Auto, currently around 1.66V (weren't sure if I should set Memory voltage to 1.80V just because it says so on the memory label itself).
If someone can help me manually set the best timings/voltage to stabilize this system, I'd be most grateful. You'd be saving me from selling off my PC piece by piece, rolling around in mud, muttering to myself and eating my own hair!
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