Ram Speed Lower

[Mathew6877]

I have an overclocked AMD 8350 (4.7 Stable) and the ram speed is lower than advertised. Is there anyway to adjust this manually to 1866? I have 16 gbs of G.Skill 1866 installed and it is running at 1532. When you overclock typically the ram speed goes down, but I was wondering if there is anyway to up the speed back close to advertised.

 

[genthug]

Your RAM speed should be going up with your FSB, not down. Another thing I would recommend: AMD's black series come so that you can overclock easily with multipliers instead of FSB. Multiplier overclocking is far easier than FSB overclocking. Get your CPU up to around where you were with your multipliers, then minor tweaks with FSB if you really want that extra 50mhz.

Did you go into your bios and configure your RAM speed while you were overclocking, or did you just leave it be?
Regardless of your answer to that: there is a way, go into bios, you should have a RAM speed selection. 1532 is slightly lower than 1600, so find your RAM speed, there should be a drop down for you to change it back up to around 1800.

 

[Mathew6877]

The drop down won't allow you to change the speed to 1866 or around 1800. It is listed as 1880 and when you select it, the overclock fails. I was taught that a FSB overclock was better for performance. I was just wondering if there was a way to enter the timings and make adjustments, so I could use the current overclock.

 

[genthug]

That's odd that your 1866 RAM fails at all of 1880... But it might be because your CPU only supports up to 1866, or that your motherboard doesn't. More than likely the motherboard. So, that could be the issue. But to answer your question, no you can't. Multiplier is gonna be easier, and either way you're still getting the same clock out of your processor so I don't know how it's better.

 

[huvik]

+1^^^ i would recommend using your multiplier to overclock, that way everything else can run the way it was suppose to.

Also are you choosing the AMP profile?

 

[Mathew6877]

No, I am not using the AMP profile. I set it to manual overclocked till stable and have been using it ever since.

 

[genthug]

It honestly depends on what you're doing if you'll even see a difference or not. If you're doing something like graphics then faster RAM will aid you. But, the difference from 1600-1866 for gaming? like, maybe .1 FPS if that.