Setting my RAM to 1866

AlexDenne

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Apr 22, 2013
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Good afternoon,

I have some corsair vengeance 1866mhz ram and I believe it defaults to the normal settings (1033 or something?) until you go into the BIOS settings and tell the motherboard it is 1866mhz.

People have been telling me about timings etc. but I am a noob and need actual guidance through the BIOS menus and what I am supposed to be changing.

Also once I have done this how do I check it is working properly?
 


Hi Jemm,

Thanks, specs as follows:

CPU: NEW! AMD FX 6300 Black Edition
Operating System: Windows 8 (64-bit)
Motherboard: NEW! Gigabyte 970-DS3
RAM: NEW! 8GB Corsair 1866mhz Vengeance (2x4GB)
Hard Drive: 1TB S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s
Optical Drive: 22x DVD±RW DL S-ATA
Graphics card: AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB
Sound card: Onboard 7.1 Audio
PSU: NEW! 650W Corsair VS

Not sure about RAM kit number?