Ridiculously high latency with new ram

ProlificSky

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Hello. I recently purchased more ram for my ASUS P6T SE mobo. I was getting strange timings from the default Windows settings so I turned on X.M.P. in the bios, which I assume was the correct thing to do. However, now I'm stumped, as my memory benchmark test gave a really high latency as a result. Here are hopefully helpful pictures:

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231538 (my ram)

Any idea what is causing that latency? Maybe MaxMeM isn't detecting my ram correctly because it's showing *** as my memory and in CPU-Z it shows my ram in slots 1 & 2, but they're most certainly slotted in slots 1 & 3 on my mobo. Thank you for any possible help!
 
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MaxMemm doesn't do well with latency, use Aida, Speccy, Si-Sandra, PassMark or the like - Si-Sandra just released their new 2015 version and have some improvements in the DRAM testing area. I like Aida very well also
Honestly going by the specs they shouldn't be. I have my RAM overclocked to roughly 1866 with timings of 10-10-10-24-1T and using AIDA64 my latency was only about 47ns. I've never heard of or used MaxMem so maybe its an issue with the program. For comparison I will give it a run on mine and see, maybe that part of the program is just faulty.
 
I found a dif program first called Maxmem from a group with some pretty handy little software tools, but after a few minutes found the correct one.

Using it I got 52.9ns, so I would say your 48.2 is correct and everything is working fine even though the results are a few ns slower than AIDA64.

As for deleting the thread, not sure if Tradesman1 will do that for you, its really best to just mark an answer and leave it here. Someone else having the same issue with a crazy high latency might come find this thread and realize running it again could fix it.