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Old 15th May 2009, 14:52
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I've just gone and bought 8Gb of GeIL Black Dragon RAM for my new PC, noticed it runs at 5-5-5-15. Asked a good friend of mine who said whack it on the BIOS to 4-4-4-12 and it'll perform much much better.

It probably will but will this damage or shorten the life span of anything?

Cheers, Razer.
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Old 15th May 2009, 19:27
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If it even runs at that, stock is 5-5-5-15, the only way it should be possible to run them at tighter timing is to underclock them which is pointless really
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Old 16th May 2009, 12:53
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Awesome, I'm good at leaving things alone.

If I touch it or not, I'll manage to break it :P
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Old 16th May 2009, 13:35
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Awesome, I'm good at leaving things alone.
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Old 17th May 2009, 04:03
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I have 4gb of this ram and. I just left it at 5 5 5 15, if u want to overclock anyways, try using the link mode in the bios for cpu and ram, if you have that, but i noticed aswell sometimes this ram doesnt like to be overclocked at all.

Have you checked the volts yet? when i first installed it , bios set it to 1.9v but for that timming i later found out from cpuz that it should be at 1.8v I have mines on 1.8v now all the time and runs great. so maybe just drop the volts to that if you can,other than that, we havnt bought the best ram out there to do such things :(
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Old 17th May 2009, 04:06
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Well I cant change the voltages since I don't have the RAM atm. The shop has it for "testing" so they can send me 8 gigs of RAM that works!

I'm just going to leave it be. Shame it's only 4.8 on Windows Experience Index but everything else is above 5.6 which I'm well happy about :-D

Never change the RAM voltages or timings because it WILL go boom on me, have a curse that says so. I overclocked my brothers CPU by 10MHz and it didn't work until I had it replaced haha.
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Old 17th May 2009, 05:32
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Stock is between 1.9-2.5v, it should be kept at 1.9v and only more if instability occurs or if overclocking
@Ozzie82 You are lucky you can run them at that
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