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I'm in the market for my first DDR3 RAM - in fact I've just bought some and returned it because it didn't peform as advertised.
Now when I bought DDR or DDR2 and it was advertised at CL5 @ 1066MHz @ 2.0V (for example), I plugged it in and it was CL5 at 1066Mhz.
I new that if I wanted to squeeze some extra MHz or tighten the timings I might have to play around with the BIOS settings and voltages etc. But that was my choice, part of being an enthusiast and overclocking my kit.
But, if I understand what I've been told and read, DDR3 isn't sold anything like this. The advertised setting are overclocked (because I'm told the only JEDEC standard for DDR3 is 9-9-9-24 @ 1333) and to acheive it I will have to play around with my BIOS, experimenting with parameters in the hope of finding the ones that will work. The real challenge is there is no guarantee that it will work at advertised and all the experimenting in the world won't help. To confound this the manufacturers don't even provide a set of paraemeters to use, even as a starting point.
It just seems really iffy that the manufacturers are selling stuff which it's customers have to put in a lot of advanced configuration just to get working at the advertised spec.
Or am I missing something?
Cheers,
Nigel
Now when I bought DDR or DDR2 and it was advertised at CL5 @ 1066MHz @ 2.0V (for example), I plugged it in and it was CL5 at 1066Mhz.
I new that if I wanted to squeeze some extra MHz or tighten the timings I might have to play around with the BIOS settings and voltages etc. But that was my choice, part of being an enthusiast and overclocking my kit.
But, if I understand what I've been told and read, DDR3 isn't sold anything like this. The advertised setting are overclocked (because I'm told the only JEDEC standard for DDR3 is 9-9-9-24 @ 1333) and to acheive it I will have to play around with my BIOS, experimenting with parameters in the hope of finding the ones that will work. The real challenge is there is no guarantee that it will work at advertised and all the experimenting in the world won't help. To confound this the manufacturers don't even provide a set of paraemeters to use, even as a starting point.
It just seems really iffy that the manufacturers are selling stuff which it's customers have to put in a lot of advanced configuration just to get working at the advertised spec.
Or am I missing something?
Cheers,
Nigel