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Originally Posted by rockyjohn
 EUREKA.
I now get a warning on my BIOS screen - the System Voltage Control header changed to a flashing red warning "System Voltage NOT Optimized". Is it safe to continue ignoring this? |
Great to Hear!!
For sure, that is just there to remind you incase you set things Very high or do not know what you are doing. It will always say that if you manually set many things. NO need to worry at all
As for the BIOS, like you said each may have fixed something the other did or did not, so maybe F8f would be better to try? But you may just be best to leave it for now until a final comes out. It will likely just be F8 with no letter
You can use Everest Ultimate to do bandwidth tests, The free trial does not offer all sections of the tests for you to view but it is a good tool to use and see some changes. The benchmark you want will be in Tools, then cache and benchmark in the upper menu>>>>>>
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SiSandra Software is another great tool for this
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As for the settings, I would start with rolling back Static tRead first as it has the most impact on performance. Act to Act next, then read to precharge, then write to precharge, then refresh to act, then write to read delay. Then finally I did not list it but you can try 4-6 on write to read delay and see if it benchmarks any better then 9-11, sometimes it does and sometimes not
Well some do get Crucial to work, but I suggest against it everytime from helping many users I say it is not compatible at all. Probably why you say you dont see it listed at Crucials site! Yeah, "E" versions have the same issues. Like I said though it is not a Official thing at all, just my opinion based on MANY threads read, threads helped with and personal experiences in trying to setup systems for customers. As you know MANY people LOVE crucial and for good reason, they USED to be the best (Again my Opinion) but they have since started using different chips then they used to in the past that got them their great Reputation, still Micron as they are they same company but different chips then those that they used to use (D9's). And in the past few years new or old chips both seem to DIE often, with low or high voltages, timings or for just no reason. But even the older chips still are not good with GA boards I think.
Good luck in your timing tweaking, just keep in mind it is not a simple task and takes some time and effort to find the sweet spot. Take advantage of the BIOS profiles feature and save you a stable high area of settings to use when you dont have time to play and save a separate one that you are working on getting better timings in.
F11 on the Main BIOS page is Save, and F12 is Load a profile. All you do is save the one you are using now on the main page. The go in and make some changes and go back out to the main page and save again using a different name and then you will have 2, you can use up to 8 or more depending on the board. I love this feature it saves much time in getting things done, more people should use it for sure!!
Again, good luck and post back if you run into any issues that stump you.
Thanks for the kind words, Good to hear after some of the negative replies I often get here by random posters!
