problem with my pc10700 and pc 12800 kingstone ram.

Iamcid

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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

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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.
 

Supahos

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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)
 

Supahos

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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 :p