How do you get RAM to run at full capacity?

[BootlegUsher]

Thread back from the dead!

Anyway, since I originally posted this question I built a PC and found out that all I have to do is go into my bios and pick 1600. One button press is all it took.

Sort of on a related note, I have AMD black edition memory from OCZ, and phenom II 965 BE. I was to understand that I can change my RAM frequency by going into AMD overdrive, changing the setting and restarting my PC. When I change the setting and reboot, I go into AMD overdrive and the frequency is the same, no change.

Anyone here familiar with how black edition memory profiles work?

[clone63]

Change it directly in the BIOS. I've had problems with AMD overdrive not working with the restart aspect.
OCZ "black edition" memory is just a name, it wont offer anything different. Just like their "Vista ready" memory ...

[BootlegUsher]

Still glad I bought it, it looks sweet and fits underneath my noctua C12P cooler.

[sswilson]

These days, branding memory as AMD/Intel might actually have some legitimacy to it when it comes to running them right out of the box on each individual platform. Many folks with AM3 systems have found that they need to tweak some of the secondary settings of tri-channel (designed for I7 systems) DDR3 sticks to get them to run stable.

Not a big deal if they'll at least boot into bios, but it could be a deal breaker for somebody who doesn't even know how to access their bios.

BTW... my 1600 sticks aren't 1.9V, but they are 1.7 so that they'll do 7-7-7 @ 1600.... ;)