Dear People of Tom's Hardware,
I have recently taken the time to overclock the RAM in my system (without changing any voltage settings, which is what I'll be doing from now on for all of my components) and I just have a few questions to ask.
My first question is about timings. Currently, I have 4 sticks of 4GB Corsair Vengeance Blue CAS 9 1600Mhz RAM overclocked to 2000Mhz running at CAS 10. My timings on the XMP were 9-9-9-24, my new timings with the OC are 10-11-11-26. I have a question regarding the TRAS setting. I am no expert in this field of overclocking, but I've done research and all of the articles I have read say that the TRAS should be about the sum of the other 3 timings. Is this true? Isn't it just safe to tighten ALL the timings as much as possible without errors?
Anyway, I have done 2 1/2 full passes in MemTest86 with no errors and 3 runs of Hyper PI without any error messages popping up. I have had no sign of slowdown or issues running games and everyday computing. I just wanted to know, if I have no errors, is my computer still safe? I've heard of people saying bad RAM timings and the like could lead to OS corruption, so I want to be sure.
Thanks, Davcoll
I have recently taken the time to overclock the RAM in my system (without changing any voltage settings, which is what I'll be doing from now on for all of my components) and I just have a few questions to ask.
My first question is about timings. Currently, I have 4 sticks of 4GB Corsair Vengeance Blue CAS 9 1600Mhz RAM overclocked to 2000Mhz running at CAS 10. My timings on the XMP were 9-9-9-24, my new timings with the OC are 10-11-11-26. I have a question regarding the TRAS setting. I am no expert in this field of overclocking, but I've done research and all of the articles I have read say that the TRAS should be about the sum of the other 3 timings. Is this true? Isn't it just safe to tighten ALL the timings as much as possible without errors?
Anyway, I have done 2 1/2 full passes in MemTest86 with no errors and 3 runs of Hyper PI without any error messages popping up. I have had no sign of slowdown or issues running games and everyday computing. I just wanted to know, if I have no errors, is my computer still safe? I've heard of people saying bad RAM timings and the like could lead to OS corruption, so I want to be sure.
Thanks, Davcoll