Suggestion on buying RAM

[Falcon Speed]

Thanks Shinma,

Why no memory with 1.65 volts and what is EOL?

I bought the Xtreme and put them in. I ran the MEMTEST86+ and everything is fine.

When I had mixed RAM (1600mhz and 2000mhz), MEMTEST86+ kept showing error on the setting no matter what timing, voltage, multiplier being set. I kept telling that Train person not to mix RAM. Hahaha, I should have listed to him.

At one point, I lowered my CPU multiplier to 15 and increased the BCLK to 200 to get the memory to run at 1600mhz. I was trying to avoid overclocking the CPU. Even that, MEMTEST86+ was still coughing.

[Shinma]

... Why no memory with 1.65 volts ...

Reference to wonderinguy34's comments.
And
I prefer long term stability over any overclocking.

... and what is EOL?

End
Of
Life.

[Falcon Speed]

Is it the DRAM Voltage of 1.65 that you are referring to and can I lower it manually?

When I was running these, it was set at 1.5 although the specs said that it is 1.65.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227365

[Shinma]

Is it the DRAM Voltage of 1.65 that you are referring to ...

Yes.

... and can I lower it manually? ...

Possible but no guarantee of running at specified latency settings,
and/or
Data corruption may occur over the long term.

If performance is what you're after,
Use of SSD for operating system + programs, would likely provide better performance than running more memory beyond 8 GB.
Unless you're implementing RamDisk.

[Falcon Speed]

Possible but no guarantee of running at specified latency settings,
and/or
Data corruption may occur over the long term.

I manually set:
-QPI/VTT voltage to 1.175 (read it suppposed to be within .5 of DRAM)
-DRAM Voltage to 1.5
-Latency to 9-11-9-27
-Memory Multiplier to 12 (1600mhz, not 2000mhz)
-No overclocking on the CPU (staying within 2.8ghz)

I ran MEMTEST86+ for about 4 hours and it said it passed all. It is showing temperature at 39c when running my Zalman air on high.

If performance is what you're after,
Use of SSD for operating system + programs, would likely provide better performance than running more memory beyond 8 GB.
Unless you're implementing RamDisk.

I do have an SSD for the OS. And yes, you are correct that I am in the process to implement a RAMDisk.

End
Of
Life.

Yeah, these RAM is considered to be the higher end for my board. When I bought the DDR3 1600mhz (6gb), they were about $170 in 2010. It is amazing how price dropped on memory, while in that time frame, hard drive costs went up. You mentioned that it is EOL. I guess there has been much better memory that came out recently.