ram question

[clonesvax]

is it normal that my 64gb of corsair vengeance thats supposed to run at 1600 is downclocked automatically by my rog board to run at 1333 mhz? i just noticed this.

my question is is this for safety or something? can i "overclock" it without problems to the specified 1600 mhz its supposed to run at?

can i overclock even higher or not with 64gb, i believe overclocking with 8 dimms aint so easy if i read about a bit. (i have a side air intake fan that blows air over the mobo)

any suggestions here? you guys helped solve my previous problems and now my rig runs at 4.3 ghz overclocked with my h100 corsair, all is good, temps at load about 70-72, idle at 35-40.

now waiting for my xfx 7970 black edition double dissipation and lets rock 😉

(i use 50gb of that 64 gb as ramdrive, it rocks the cashbah!, makes my raid 0 ,4*1tb disk array look very very pale 😉 )

[HiVizMan]

Hello

Your ram is not being downclocked as you call it. 1333Mhz is the Intel spec for the board. To have your ram run at the ram manufactures top rated specification you will have to overclock the ram. Not a safety feature rather a design standard.

However that does not mean we can not overclock and get your ram to the specified frequency. The real world gains you will get out of an increase from 1333MHz to 1600MHz is hardly noticeable in the real world to be blunt unless you bench. But if your system can handle it lets make it happen.

Yes you are spot on the amount of ram and the total number of sticks of ram in system will make the overclock interesting.

May I make a suggestion please save your current working overclock settings as an profile. That is important. Even better is take a series of screen shots and save them some place so that if or when you update your BIOS you will have a record of your settings that you can fall back too.

To start what is your current settings for the ram and include the voltages that are not on auto please.