problem with my pc10700 and pc 12800 kingstone ram.

[Iamcid]

i am currently having x2 pc10700kingstone and x2 12800kingstone set in my rig, they are both capped on 1333mhz by my mainboard, but, they both support 1600 mhz or even more, and when i try to set them both to 1600mhz, first time my bios saves and boots in windows with 1600 mhz speed and with 1.65v . But if i restart the SO, my computer double restarts, and sets the memory speed to 1333mhz, and i wanted it to be 1600 mhz permanent. Is it a bios related problem or something? My mainboard is MSI P67A-C45 and i have 2600k I7 and a 580 GTX gainward 3GB. Xonar STX. PSU 750 W Sirtec. oh And a 240 GB SSD Samsung 840, and 1 terrabyte barracuda HDD.

 

[Bejusek]

Start from updating the BIOS to the newest version (1.J):
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/P67A-C45.html#/?div=BIOS
Flash it from BIOS, as described in 'Flash AMI UEFI BIOS by MFLASH' here:
http://www.msi.com/service/biosupdate/
Backup your current BIOS first.

 

[Iamcid]

I kinda updated it to the latest bios , which is 5.4 listed here http://www.msi.com/product/mb/P67A-C45--B3-.html#/?div=BIOS . Isn`t that the latest bios that i should have?

 

[Bejusek]

Yes it is, if you have the P67A-C45 with B3 chipset revision. For P67A-C45 with older revision, 1.J is the newest.

Are your RAM timings set manually or read from XMP? If so, set them manually according to manufacturer specs for 1600MHz.

 

[Iamcid]

i set them to 1600 mhz, but i dont know what else to change in bios

 

[Supahos]

pc10700kingston ram is not supposed to run at 1600 mhz is it? The other kit is, the first one I'm not so sure about.

That kit might not be able to run at 1600 and could be causing the issue. If the board only support 1333 that could be the other problem. Try setting the timings to 9-9-9-27 after you set it to 1600 and see if that fixes anything, if not try 11-11-11-33 (the default standard for 1600)

 

[Iamcid]

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/5488/gv1k.jpg
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/3930/ix0h.JPG
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/1968/gi9o.JPG

This is how it looks, and i dont know how to change those values

 

[Supahos]

I really think the most likely issue is that first set you have listed won't run at 1600 mhz, so if you leave it at 1333 it should be fine. However if you want to do some playing just arrow to the place where it says auto and change that number, on timings the lower the better, on speed the faster the better. just keep dram voltage under 1.65v and you shoudln't fry anything 😛

 

[Iamcid]

well tbh , its not that big of a big diffrence in performance, but i wanted them to 1600, and i know they can do both 1600 🙁