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Im setting up a system for a friend but im confused on how to change his ram timings. Im used to entering the memory configurations and seeing timings numbered out in front of me. But when i enter this bios memory configurations are all set to "auto" and there are alot of different options that im not used to.

CAS
TRC
TRFC
TRCD
TWR
TRWT
TRAS
TRP
DDR Clock Delay
2T Command

Which ones do i change to get timings of 2-2-2-11?? Any help is very much appreciated.
 
The first question you really have to answer is:

Why do you want to change the memory timings? What do you hope to gain from doing so? Do you think you will get a noticable difference from those timings versus stock timings? If you expect a noticable difference, then you will be dissapointed because simply changing timings has little to no effect on tangible performance.

Do some research on your own. Any one of those terms when entered in google will give you more information that you know what to do with.

After you do that, go here: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=707289 and see if that answers some more questions you have.

-OMP
 
Originally posted by OneMadPoptart
The first question you really have to answer is:

Why do you want to change the memory timings? What do you hope to gain from doing so? Do you think you will get a noticable difference from those timings versus stock timings? If you expect a noticable difference, then you will be dissapointed because simply changing timings has little to no effect on tangible performance.

Do some research on your own. Any one of those terms when entered in google will give you more information that you know what to do with.

After you do that, go here: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=707289 and see if that answers some more questions you have.

-OMP
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Excellent reply. Just because you have the option to change something doesn't mean it needs to be changed.

By SPD will be best if you don't know that you need to change your timings.
 
the ram we are using is made to run well at the lowest possible ram timings. you saying there is something wrong with squeezing every last ounce of performance out of the parts you buy?
 
Originally posted by zDmn
the ram we are using is made to run well at the lowest possible ram timings. you saying there is something wrong with squeezing every last ounce of performance out of the parts you buy?
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Ok, since you didnt read either of the posts responding to your origional question, here we go again...

LOWER TIMINGS DO NOT ALWAYS MEAN BETTER PERFORMANCE

Infact, even if you do lower your timings, you may get worse performance! It really all depends on the motherboard and the processor and how the rest of the hardware is setup.

Additionally, if you do manage to lower the timings, the difference is performance is so close to 0 that it really makes little sense to bother trying in the first place. You may get a whole *gasp* 0.5 fps more out of your games, you may get windows to boot *gasp* 1 second faster, and in windows, you won't notice a damn thing different. Why? Changing timings doesnt help performance in any noticable way. Only overclocking can do that, and then only a decent overclock.

Just because your ram is "made" to run low timings doesnt mean you should. You would need extensive synthetic benchmarks to even see a difference on paper if you manage to change a timing.
 
Originally posted by zDmn
the ram we are using is made to run well at the lowest possible ram timings. you saying there is something wrong with squeezing every last ounce of performance out of the parts you buy?
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the AUTO setting in bios runs the default timings that the memory is rated for
 
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