Kingston's HyperX Savage overclock

[logicalways]

Just bought the new Hyperx Savage 32gig 1600Mhz CL9 1.5V quad kit (4x8) for my new build asus maximus formula vii + an Intel i7-4790k. I cant get the ram to go higher than the posted 1600Mhz xmp. I selected 1866mhz and my system turns on the shuts down and then Loops over and over. I'm running a corsair TX750 Watt psu and a single gtx 980. I can't find much info on this ram yet, I guess it's Still quite new. Any suggestions why it won't post over 1600Mhz 9-9-9-24?

[dragoon20005]

when you increase the speed of your RAM

 

you might need to lower the CAS latency and bump up the voltage of the RAM

[ProKoN]

increase voltage to 1.65-1.7V

 

loosen up timings if it wont do 1866 cl9. most kits wont do 1866 cl9.  try something like 10-11-11-11 2t

 

good luck trying to OC your ram with all 4 dimms populated. some boards dont like this. i can say from experience the formula is not the best memory clocker.

[logicalways]

Ok so instead of the xmp options in bios, I should manually set the timings? Should I start at 1.6v?

[logicalways]

Thanks for your help. Maybe it's not worth pushing it. I just seen people push the savage ram to 2400mhz and thought 1866 was going to be easy.

[ProKoN]

id go right for 1.65V and disable xmp unless you want your cpu to hit 4.4ghz on all cores. then keep it enabled

[dragoon20005]

Ok so instead of the xmp options in bios, I should manually set the timings? Should I start at 1.6v?

start with the CAS setting which ProKoN suggested

 

start with a slight increase of the voltage

[ProKoN]

that ram may hit 2400 11-13-13-13 @ 1.65V-1.75V.  if you dont try, you will never know.

 

its not worth overclocking ram in my opinion. 1600mhz cl9 does the job just fine

[Legitsu]

most likely need to feed the IMC some more voltage

bump the LCC/ring bus +0.010v

4X8 @ 1866 is asking a lot from the IMC 

if that doesn't do it up the system agent voltage to no more then 0.850 total

[logicalways]

I got it to boot at 2133mhz at 11-12-12-27 2T

Thanks for all your help. I'll run aida64 (it's all I have for testing) and see how it handles.

 

 

[logicalways]

Ran Aida64 for an hour and so far my systems not surpassing 1.63 volts on the ram at 2133mhz and with a cpu bump to 4.5Ghz at 1.28v the temp are under 70deg Celsius.