Do you underrate your mems?

Twiki

Twiki

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I built my system a month ago which is:

Intel Celeron G540 CPU (2.5 GHz)
Asrock H61M-DGS mobo
2x2gig Gskill 1600 memory
Corsair CX430 Bronze PSU

I knew I bought 1600s instead of 1333s with the idea that the mems will be solid under-clocked. The CPU runs them at 1066 but I actually thought it was going to be 1333. Nevertheless I saw that the timing were 7-7-7-20 instead of 9-9-9-24 and that's on auto setting.

Looks like my idea worked?
 
You have to go into the bios and manually change the speed of the ram. Most boards will default to 1333/1066
 
your CPU memory controller only supports up to 1333, but you can run it (if you got a good one) up to 2133 without issue.

The issue is your chipset. H61 only supports 1066 memory, 1333 is teh manufacturer installed memory Overclocking in the BIOS (which 99% of ASrock H61 boards did not).
 
This is interesting, I went to my mobo's site and it shows that it'll support mems up to 1600 non OCed. I guess that depends on the CPU and its FSB then.

I was checking out two CPUs, i3 2120 and i3 3220 for my system. Most likely I'll get i3 3220 and my BIOS is the latest which means all the supported CPUs are covered.

Probably two months before I can get it though.
 
It is bullshitting you. Sandybridge only supports 1333 by default. 1334 and above is OC on teh memory.
Ivybridge does 1600 stock speed, but It is useless to go get ivybridge for a h61 board.
 
Isn't that what my point is? The memory speed depends on the CPU. It says that the mobo supports memory speed up to 1600. The CPU support is from Celeron to i7 and Xeon.
 
no. That is solely dependent on the chipset and memory controller. a celeron will run the exact same memories as a i7. The memory controller supports faster memory with ivy than it does with Sandy (because it is integrated into the CPU).
 
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