[SOLVED] DDR3 2400Mhz running @ Max 1334Mhz

[spike102k]

Hi, recently installed FX8300 onto a Gigabyte FA-970A-DS3P, installed DDR3 2400Mhz RAM - Corsair vengeance Pro Series (2x4Gb).

The motherboard and processor allegedly support clock speeds of 1866Mhz, however if I load XMP profile 1 in the bios on reboot it asks for optimised defaults. If I manually clock to 933(1866Mhz) it requests the same. If I run it on AUTO it reduces the clock speed to 400 and the best I am able to achieve is 667Mhz (1334Mhz)

Any suggestions on a fix?

Would overclocking the processor effect the RAM Speed?

Thanks.

 

[CountMike]

Hi, recently installed FX8300 onto a Gigabyte FA-970A-DS3P, installed DDR3 2400Mhz RAM - Corsair vengeance Pro Series (2x4Gb).

The motherboard and processor allegedly support clock speeds of 1866Mhz, however if I load XMP profile 1 in the bios on reboot it asks for optimised defaults. If I manually clock to 933(1866Mhz) it requests the same. If I run it on AUTO it reduces the clock speed to 400 and the best I am able to achieve is 667Mhz (1334Mhz)

Any suggestions on a fix?

Would overclocking the processor effect the RAM Speed?

Thanks.

Which CPU ? Only FX processors support up to 2000MHz on that MB.

 

[spike102k]

Which CPU ? Only FX processors support up to 2000MHz on that MB.

It's the FX8300 processor.

 

[CountMike]

It's the FX8300 processor.

It's the FX8300 processor.

1866MHz is best setting for it, don't use XMP.

 

[spike102k]

It's the FX8300 processor.

1866MHz is best setting for it, don't use XMP.

Thanks Mike but it wont let me, 667 (1334) is the best I can achieve. If the difference is marginal then I'll just ignore it but I thought there maybe a reason I cannot change it and it might be linked to the processor settings / overclocking? It's already set to 21x on the processor with a boost up to 4.2Ghz.

 

[CountMike]

Thanks Mike but it wont let me, 667 (1334) is the best I can achieve. If the difference is marginal then I'll just ignore it but I thought there maybe a reason I cannot change it and it might be linked to the processor settings / overclocking? It's already set to 21x on the processor with a boost up to 4.2Ghz.

Memory OC is independent from CPU OC. and yes wouldn't get much more from 1866.

 

[spike102k]

Thank you, appreciate the prompt reply.