G. Skill Sniper 1866 MHz (need help)

[parablooper]

My friend installed 2x4GB sticks on a Gigabyte board. They were on the correct dual-channel DIMM slots. As usual, they defaulted to 1600MHz. When attempting to activate XMP, however, we failed to boot into the BIOS. After messing around with a couple of settings, we booted successfully into the BIOS and it claimed we were at 1866, with XMP enabled.

CPU-Z told us a different story.

(Also, the base clock is set to 200MHz but always runs at 201 for some reason, and that kinda throws everything off)

Not only are we at 1600MHz, but with some scary low timings. Is it possible that CPU-Z made a detection error? Why would something like this happen? How do I into XMP correctly?

 

[caution]

Damn those are some tight timings. Go to xs.org you o/c animal

Cpuz obviously is acting silly, what board are we talking about? What BIOS ver, too?

 

[razel]

Yes, those are crazy low timings, plus with 2 DIMMs it ought to say Dual for Channel # and DC Mode should be symmetric. What does the SPD tab look like or specifically do you see any XMP timings in the Timings Table?

Chances are all that fiddling around in the BIOS may have gotten you here. What'd I'd do? Reset all memory settings to default, minus XMP. Once that passes a round of Memtest, turn XMP on. Best of luck.

Also automatic XMP timings in my experience worked with post Sandy Bridge Core I5, I7 processors. At least with laptops. This isn't to say that you can't use XMP. You'll just have to find out the XMP timings and enter those in manually in the BIOS.

 

[Soulkeeper]

I doubt those timings are correct.
Don't rely on windows software over your bios.