Quote Originally Posted by Don_Dan View Post
Can you give us more info about your setup and what you've tried?
Don't expect too much, both kits aren't known for being overclocking monster.
Well I set everything to a T from this guide other then the ram @ 1866mhz. I'm sure it needed voltage adjustments or something but it would keep cycling after I saved the bios settings and never showing a screen other then black. Until it would lock up and I would have to force shut it down. When I would turn it back on I got the overclock failed message.

As I said I just flat out don't understand the memory overclocking bit because it is way over my head and there is way too much involved in it. I really wanted to find out what they would do though so I can list them at their benched specs for sale. I see people all the time with ram for sale that does this on that and this with these timing's. Which is of course all greek to me but people look for that stuff when they are buying ram. Mainly I don't want to under price some fairly decent ram so I wanted to see what each set would do so I could sell the better performing set. Since I don't regularly overclock. Gaming shows no improvements in overclocking when your running 16gig or ram, 3770k, and 7970. If they did you would have to benchmark the gaming to notice any difference because the naked eye can't.

All I've been playing for the last 2 years is MWO when I'm not gaming I'm mining off my 7970 to fund my next gpu purchase. I have too busy of a life to game all the time. When I do have spare time I like to bench my system (cpu/gpu) in 3dmark. That of which I haven't had a chance to do yet with this build. (I've had this 3770k and 7970 for over a year if that shows you how much tinkering time I have) So you could imagine my frustration with spending most of the day (6am-2pm) benching my cpu trying to get over 5.0 to then drop into unknown territory of memory overclocking and not having anything I read be retained.

I can no longer read books and haven't been able to for at least 15 years. Once I get 5-6 pages in the first 1-2 pages I read are like an afterthought to me. It's very frustrating. So to read about what 50 different settings do but only know partially what the last couple do um yea I should just hang it up and pick which set of heat spreaders looks best in my build and sell the other one. Apples to oranges they would be ran at 1600mhz all the time or 1866mhz. Because I don't feel the need to overclock ram just to game. It would have just been testing purposes only and for future use when I have another cool day and time to actually run 3dmark on my new build.

I would love someone local to come over and explain this crap to me. It may actually make sense then. lol