Quote Originally Posted by GFORCE100 View Post
Hi all,

Can someone here please confirm whether this board despite the latest BIOS (0401 or 0501) still doesn't allow changing the RAM timings from within the BIOS? I'm just trying to figure out if there's any point using Kingston HyperX's that do 4-4-4-12 at 800MHz Vs the 5-5-5-15 plain vanilla PC2-6400 FB-DIMM RAM out there?

Thanks.
I haven't played with 0501 but I don't believe it adds anything to do with RAM timing.

I can tell you however that if you use the Kingston Hyper-X FB-DIMMs, they will die. At one point I had 4 sticks in my machine--all are now dead. So if you do buy Kingston Hyper-X FB-DIMMs, buy them from some place that sells them as new and gives you a receipt. Kingston will only refund the original purchaser of the RAM. They no longer have spare sticks for replacement.

Right now I am using 2x 4GB sticks of Kingston's KTA-MP800K2/8G, and I have put Hyper-X heatsinks on them for improved cooling. Works great.

Honestly I wouldn't spend too much--scratch that, any money on a Z7S build, because, well, read this thread.