EggXpert

Just having a little trouble with my first build and need some help.  Everything runs stable with memory speed @1333 but would like to be stable @1600 also since reviews on Newegg for this ram and motherboard say they are stable @1600.  I have also sent an email to gskill but no response for a week now (nothing in my inbox or spam folder) and their forums say I don't have permission to post even after registration and activation.

I need some help with the BIOS settings with this motherboard and ram so here's what I've done so far:

The Cool n Quiet thing is disabled for all scenarios:

With everything set to auto, all is stable @1333.

Manual DDR3 speed set @1600 + Manual timing set to 9-9-9-24 + Manual DDR3 voltage set to 1.60v = random BSOD's.

Manual DDR3 speed set @1600 + Manual timing set to 9-9-9-24 + Manual DDR3 voltage set to 1.65v = random BSOD's.

also tried setting Northbridge voltage to 1.4v but still random BSOD's.

What other tweaking needs to be done? I don't want to mess with anything else until I'm told to, for I am in fear of blowing something up.  If any more technical information is needed please let me know since I am new to tweaking with stuff.  Thanks for reading!

Thats about all you can try. 1600MHz is considered an overclocked speed for the mainboard/CPU so its not always easy to achieve.

Try changing your latencies from 9-9-9-24 to 10-10-10-30 and see if it helps, and try to keep the RAM voltage closer to 1.5v as it may cause instabilities as well.

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