CL9 and CL10 Corsair Vengeance

quletadik23

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Should I be worried with this Setup?

Vengeance® — 1x8GB DDR3 Memory Kit (CMZ8GX3M1A1600C9)
Vengeance® — 1x8GB DDR3 Memory Kit (CMZ8GX3M1A1866C10)



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I just bought another ram, I ordered CL9 and came to there store and they give me this CL10. :( And I don't know what to say, and dunno what to do..

I'm not a warfreak that will rage at their store to fight about this.

The thing is, is this good? is there something that I should be worried?

Specs:

i7-3770
Zotac GTX1070
SAMSUNG EVO 840 256GB SSD
2TB HDD VS35
VP550P Antec
ASUS P8H61-M LE/USB3
Vengeance® — 1x8GB DDR3 Memory Kit (CMZ8GX3M1A1600C9)
Vengeance® — 1x8GB DDR3 Memory Kit (CMZ8GX3M1A1600C10)

 
Solution
Looks like you are OK, the one stick (is 1866/10 - not a 1600 /10 so they basically gave you the wrong stick, if the package said 1600/10 then somebody screwed up

Lodocarbo

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Well, from the screenshot you posted it seems like you got the CL9 :D

Edit 1: But if you have 2 identical RAM sticks is better, if you paid for something you have the right to have it. Don't be rude but notify them that they shipped the wrong stick!

Edit 2: By the way you are in mistake sir, one model is called CMZ8GX3M1A1866C10 and the other CMZ8GX3M1A1600C9
one is 1866Mhz and the other is 1600Mhz
 
So you have 1 stick of:

1600Mhz cl9 and 1866Mhz cl10

and together they are running at 1333Mhz cl9. You need to go into your bios and manually set your speed to 1600Mhz 9-9-9-24, You might be able to get away with overclocking the first stick to 1866Mhz to match the second one you bought but i would not push it since these are not a matched pair kit.
 

darthvader30

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Both sticks are running at exact same speed. The one you recently purchased is a higher clocked version version of your older RAM and therefore it can run at slower speed and match the older one. So, it won't cause any problems since both are running at same speed, CL and in dual channel.

You RAM's are running slower than they should. Go to the BIOS and set them to 1600mhz manually or enable X.M.P.
 

darthvader30

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Since you have overclocked your RAM you might have some system crashes, I'm not saying you will, you might have, so in that case just go to your BIOS and reset the RAM timings to default and keep X.M.P. still enabled and you'll be good to go.
For now everything looks good.