Ram not running at correct speed

[insanepuppet]

I just bought Kingston Hyper X Blu DDR3 1600 Mhz ram for my computer. When installed it reads all 8 GB but only reads it as 1333 Mhz. Leading to my question, do I need to manually OC the ram to get the advertised speed? I've read the sticky in the forum, and also Kingston's website. Basically the website said I might have to set the values manually. Can you point me to either the values or a guide to OC'ing my ram? I've overclocked a cpu so I can't see it being much different, just no experience with it. Also, my bios is up to date.


Heres the specs I think you need, if you need more I would be more than happy to provide them.



Mobo- Asus ROG Crosshair Formula IV
CPU- AMD 1090t Hexcore BE

New Ram- HyperX blu 8GB DDR3-1600 (PC3-12800) CL9 Dual Channel Desktop Memory Kit (Two 4GB Memory Modules)


Thank you very much for your time in advance

 

[h3sham]

AMD OCing club
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261868-29-overclocking-club

AMD stable OCing values table
https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0Atid2icGx257dFc1MnRteTlMb3VOMy13WklIRWRITXc&hl=es&output=html

 

[insanepuppet]

Ok, I see where you were going with the links, problem is I don't see the timings and voltage of my specific ram in there. And I've never OC'd ram to know what I'm doing. Can I just change the speed and put the voltage to what is on the package, or do I need to change the timings too?

 

[h3sham]

try the timings for the 1607 ram

 

[insanepuppet]

Thank you. Between reading what timings were used for comparable ram, then calling the manufacturer I got it running smoothly

 

[insanepuppet]

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